"Owning the Autistic Experience" A First Person Perspective - Cortland Nesley, CED Program Manager and Autistic Adult

Join us in this thoughtful discussion with Cortland Nesley as he describes his personal journey in navigating the feelings and thoughts of being an adult with autism in a world that doesn't understand. Cortland speaks on his "awakening", what led him to seek out community, how his perspectives have shifted throughout his life of support needs, and about how his diagnosis influences who he is as a person. What would he say to parents navigating the early days of their child's diagnosis and what are his plans for creating change in the future as an advocate for himself and others with Autism. 

Resources: 

Don't Mourn For Us

Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network

NeuroTales

Autism Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex

Wrong Planet

 

Sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Maternal, Child, and Family Health/Children with Special Health Care Needs Program and the West Virginia Family 2 Family Health Information Center and Produced by the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities.

Episode Transcript Here

 

 

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