Guerilla Autistics Podcast Autism Aspergers Syndrome Neurodiversity Neurodivergent ASD Paul Wady

I never thought I would get to speak to someone in the legendary Californian city of Fresno. I always though it was short for a bigger title too, but turns out to be Spanish for Ash tree. Eve Reliand who claimed the name Autistic Bad Ass Activist before anyone else, kindly spoke to me for my podcast.
Eve is best introduced as an autistic activist, artist, writer and parent. she is the founder of InternationalBadassActivists (one word for all you autistic pendants out there), and a co-founder of the Autistic Co operative. Eve started writing for self advocacy in 2005 and launched her first campaign around autism in 2008.
Eve's goals are to make a better future for all autistic s born today, amplify divergent voices and document just what has been going on in the world of autism but from our perspective rather than the neurotypical curing parent one that seems to want absolute domination over every narrative and agenda known. Her wonderful films on social media must be seen to be believed. History will be very glad that Eve has gone to the effort that she has.
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Carly Jones MBE is a single mother of three daughters, the eldest of which is 23. A fact that she reckons entitles her to a sainthood, never mind being made a Member of the British Empire for services to autistic people (well at least the British Crown recognises us as such).
Carly's story found her alone against all the odds raising three children, and later in life finding out through them that she was autistic. She has gone on to support many autistic people as a mentor and...wait for it... is a Keynote speaker, a presenter, an author, a UK Policy Safeguarding professional and...yet there is more...is on numerous advisory boards like the National Autistic Society, The Barbican London, Autistica Insights, NHS England Immunisation Board, Heathrow Airport, Motability Consumer Group, East Midlands Rail and as if that aint enough she finds time to. (take a breath now) be an Independent Member of the Ministry of Justice (that sounds very Judge Dredd doesnt it?) Our Majesty the Queens Community and Voluntary Honours Committee UK, Royal Society of Arts fellow, Co chair of the Executive Steering group with National Autistic Society and Royal Menace for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training of all U.K. NHS Health and Social Care Staff.
Not finished yet. She was voted one of the top 100 U.K. female entrepreneurs as well. No really.
She's been on the BBC and independently reviews scholastic articles for Springer publications.
If that's not informed you, try her twitter - CarlyJonesMBE and if you STILL need more, I think it's best you email her on Carly on Britishautismadvocate@gmail.com.
Thank you.
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Yes, Ash drew the t shirt I am wearing for the 2019 Guerilla Aspies show at the Edinburgh Festival fringe. Note also his perfect t shirt?
If you know horror illustration the world over, you know Ash London's work. He's legendary. Now meet the late diagnosed autistic man behind the almighty back catalogue of images our planet can barely contain. Meet his remarkable neurodivergent family. Oh I'm sorry I forgot that advocates like myself are not supposed to be interested in the relatively disabled autistic? Silly me - everyone is here in all forms of so called functionality. Oops!
Ash is best described by his own hand: Taking in everything from art for 2001 Maniacs, The Welcoming, conceptual art for The Poet in Exile, FrightFest, Cine Excess festival, Stealth Aspies theatre company, design for the Get Your Genki record label, the Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick exhibition, Glasgow Museums and Glasgow Science Centre & the Tax Shelter Terrors documentary, concept & art for Scottish Autism's Autitude magazine plus portraits for Cameron Diaz, Kirk Jones and David Hess along the way.
He's very good!!!! He's very autism positive. He has got great family and great hair.

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Emma Dalmayne has assisted the British Police to find, question and even arrest parents and people who put their childrens live in danger through unregulated treatments that are supposed to 'cure' them of being autistic. She has often done this by infiltrating social groups dedicated to such aims, finding out who people are and then reporting them.
As seen on the BBC, Channel 4, in the Guardian, Times and Daily Mail newspapers. The unique and I think history making autistic advocate Emma Dalmayne finally gets time to talk to me on the phone. That took some doing.
Emma and I have been friends for many years and I have not been podcasting for a while, really because I was after speaking to her. I think her work around exposing the practices of injecting CHL Chlorine Dioxide into the anuses of small children, which killed a UK child, is life saving.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/10/usa.edpilkington
and
https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwxq3w/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311
Quoting the New York Times:...the “bleach cures” movement. The Genesis II Church and Kerri Rivera, among others, have been selling products like chlorine dioxide, marketed as “Miracle Mineral Solution,” or M.M.S., stating that the substances will cure autism, acne, cancer, diabetes, Covid-19 and so much more. This is a crucial red flag for pseudoscience: When a product claims it can cure anything, it’s a fake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-bleach-trump-autism.html
With six children, several of them at home to with her, Emma has started her own organisation to support both parents and autistic children with regular South London playgroups and meet ups. She has published two books and has spoken on radio and television. She has been consulted by Government in the UK Parliament and only this year was thanked during a meeting in the Palace of Westminster, over the regulation of dangerous practices aimed at 'treating' autistic children. In the belief that this would stop them being what they are.
Emma as acted undercover for many years, infiltrating huge online social groups of parents who are secretively putting their own children health and lives at risk. All under the delusion that it will stop them being what they describe as autistic. Emma has taken a lot of personal abuse from such people and has received more threats than I would care to mention on here.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/fake-cures-autism-prove-deadly
https://autisticinclusivemeets.org/about-us/emma-dalmayne/
I am proud to call Emma my friend and I hope to carry on supporting her work in the future. Even if it means we have to get ourselves a bit roughed up facing others. Ah well, that's being old Liverpudlian or Scouser for you. We tend to find ourselves at the sharp end... ;)
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George Steeves is a young gay autistic actor, singer, dancer and all round performer whom I met through his multi award winning one man show Magic 8 Ball, my life with Aspergers, when he performed it at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2018.
Brave George has already notched up a CV of film and television work in the US, including NCIS Los Angeles. (My wife and I followed the original NCIS for years).
It was great to catch up with George from his home in Los Angeles. Lockdown style 2020.
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August 2020 I found myself in a hot debate whilst using the @StealthAspies Twitter account with some advocates in the USA who could never tolerate the idea that disability is relative to autistic people. For them the term autism was absolutely synonymous with disability and disorder.
I made the acquantanceship of Jeff Fullington, a Seattle based autism advocate and asked him to podcast with me. Jeff is an interesting and passionate man who wants to create communities, both in person and virtually and seeks to bring people together and promote a positive NeuroDivergent identity the world over.
Jeff is from the Cajun culture and community and his current project is a Discord - Server platform called The Red Door. He is also working on a website, blog and podcasting platform that other autistic people will be able to use to share their work.
The discord link is https://discord.gg/AmTubn9 and the info site for it is  https://sites.google.com/view/the-red-door
WARNING: We end up spending a lot of time talking about our shared love of late 70's/early 80's music. As a first generation Liverpool Punk Rocker, I consider this a right and proper use of my podcast time. Thereafter at the end Jeff details his work so it's worth getting to the very end to hear that.
Thank you Jeff. :)
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