Peach City Community Radio Society - CFUZ

Autistic Small Talk
Vanessa Yaremchuk & Vince Freeborn

This program is currently active and being produced on a regular basis (monthly). Catch Autistic Small Talk on Peach City Radio at the following dates & times:

monthly Sundays @ 1500h
(second Sunday of each month)

New episodes of this program are regularly posted to this archive Wednesdays @ 0600h.

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Latest Episode

Episode 11 - Nick Walker's Doctoral Dissertation Part 2
Posted: December 17, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa dash through part 2 of their discussion of Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration by Nick Walker. This includes stories of Nick Walker's experiences with aikido, how he came to start training, how it changed his embodiment, and how his autistic traits benefitted not only him but his students.

Episode 10 - Nick Walker's Doctoral Dissertation Part 1
Posted: November 12, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa fly through part 1 of excitedly describing Nick Walker’s doctoral dissertation, which is entitled: Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration As you can imagine, Vanessa is completely delighted.

Episode 9 - Dyslexic Strengths
Posted: October 15, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa have a brisk chat about Dyslexic Strengths and Complimentary Cognition.

Episode 8 - Autistic Joy and Glimmers
Posted: September 17, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa cruise through Elliot Wassell's paper Experiences of Autistic Joy. Then they discuss glimmers, and share 2 field recordings containing stories of Autistic Joy.

Episode 7 - Neural Connectomes and Strengths-based Autistic Identification
Posted: August 13, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa talk fleetingly about contradictory research on autistic neural connectomes and swiftly cover 2 papers on strengths-based approaches to identifying and working with Autistic people.

Episode 6 - Stimming, and the Farahar & Foster Three Dimensional Autistic Space Framework
Posted: July 15, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa zoom through a chat about stimming followed by a speedy discussion of the Farahar & Foster Three Dimensional Autistic Space Framework. There may be a passing mention of the connection between mushrooms and ancient calendar systems.

Episode 5 - Autistic Identity and its Connection to Neuroqueerness
Posted: June 17, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa rapidly review 2 papers about autistic identity and connect them to the concept of neuroqueer, then sprint through Vince’s project of inviting people to consider their neurotype.

Episode 4 - Monotropism and Neuroqueerness
Posted: May 13, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

The episode opens with a great story from Sarah Willard. After which Vince and Vanessa have a speedy exchange about monotropism and the concept of neuroqueer. Citations and resources can be found in a pdf that you can download using the link labelled “playsheet” somewhere above this description.

Episode 3 - Autistic Pragmatic Language Hypothesis
Posted: April 15, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa glance at Rachel Cullen’s Autistic Pragmatic Language Hypothesis, and demonstrate some autistic joy by discussing their love of plants.

Episode 2 - Masking, and Prejudice in Research
Posted: March 11, 2025 - 60 minutes - playsheet

Vince and Vanessa have a quick chat about masking, identity-first language, and institutionalized prejudice and bigotry against Autistic people within research that is not led by us. Things get dark. And then they get even darker. But at the very end you hear us laughing a lot while we semi-chaotically attempt to end the episode.