Autistic Culture 101: Pillar 1 - Bottom-up Processing

Autistic Culture Podcast Network · May 20, 2025 · 1h 2m

In this episode of The Autistic Culture 101, Dr. Angela Kingdon explores Pillar 1 of Autistic Culture: Bottom-Up Processing.We begin our deep dive into the 10 Pillars of Autistic Culture with the cognitive foundation that shapes how many autistic people interpret, analyse, and interact with the world—from sensory input to social understanding.This remastered episode reintroduces the core principles of bottom-up thinking through the lens of one of fiction’s most iconic detail-driven characters: Sherlock Holmes.🎧 What You’ll LearnWhy autistic cognition favours detail-first processing over…