Autistic masking & introducing Autistic shielding: Katie & Kieran educate Aucademy

Recorded and originally aired: 19th of March 2022, 19:00 London GMT; 12:00 PST:
Autistic masking & introducing Autistic shielding: Katie & Kieran educate Aucademy


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In this session, Katie Munday (they/them) and Kieran Rose (he/him) discuss Autistic masking, and Katie's newly coined term "Autistic shielding", and how many Autistic people are wrongly blamed for "hiding/camouflaging their autism".

Katie Munday (they/them) - Autistic academic, educator, & self-advocate, facebook.com/autisticandlivingthedream
twitter.com/social_parasite

Katie's blog about shielding: https://aucademy.co.uk/2022/01/29/aut...
https://rainbowaim.com/blog/

Guest speaker details:
Kieran Rose is an Autistic writer and consultant with a background in primary education and SEN. He is father to two Autistic children, a boy and a girl; and one neurodivergent child, a boy.

Since his autism diagnosis is 2003, at the age of 23, Kieran has been dedicated to changing the negative narrative of autism and highlighting the harm being caused to Autistic people all over the world.

Kieran has founded The Autistic Cooperative, an international networking organising for advocacy organisations worldwide, with over 100 member organisations, including ASAN, ASAN AUNZ, Autistic UK, ASNZ, and 700+ individual members, from over 60 countries.

His work at The Autistic Advocate has been read by over three quarters of a million people.

Kieran is an experienced public speaker, who has spoken at a national level covering autism, neurodiversity, education, human resources and business offering both keynote deliveries and one hour presentations.

He is also an experienced trainer, offering through Infinite Autism a diverse training package covering the needs of a wide variety of different organisations from schools and colleges to private businesses and more, offering options for both real-life and online training.

Kieran's specialism lies in Autistic masking and burnout and he is a consultant on several research papers exploring them.

Pearson, A., & Rose, K. (2021). A conceptual analysis of Autistic masking: Understanding the narrative of stigma and the illusion of choice. Autism in Adulthood, 3(1), 52-60. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/1...

Web: https://theautisticadvocate.com/
Twitter: @KieranRose7
YT:    / @theautisticadvocate  
FB:   / theautisticadvocate  

*Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians*

Dr Chloe Farahar (she/they) - Autistic academic (prejudice-reduction; Autistic wellbeing; neurodiversity), educator, & self-advocate