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The World Wasn't Built for You: Autism, Masking, and Finding Your Own Way — with April Ratchford
About Our Guest
April Ratchford is an occupational therapist, an autistic adult, and the parent of an autistic young adult. She hosts the Adulting with Autism podcast — which has more than 2.7 million lifetime downloads.
What makes April's perspective different is that she brings three lenses at once. The clinical lens of an occupational therapist. The personal lens of an autistic adult. And the parental lens of someone raising an autistic child.
And the question she keeps coming back to is this: Are we actually helping neurodivergent people become independent? Or are we just teaching them…
The skinny
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