This Week on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network #1: Welcoming Nine New Shows to the Network
Meet the creator-led shows launching as part of the next chapter of the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.
Welcome to the very first edition of This Week on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.
Each week, this short update acts as our version of the old TV Guide: a quick way to find out what’s new across the network, discover shows you might have missed, and keep up with the incredible work being created by Autistic podcasters around the world.
Most weeks, we’ll simply let you know which episodes are arriving in your feed. But this week is a little different.
This week, we’re launching the Autistic Culture Podcast Network!
After more than eighteen months of planning, hundreds of submissions, countless conversations, and a huge amount of work behind the scenes, we’re thrilled to introduce the first nine original shows joining the network alongside our existing programmes. These first nine shows will always be special.
📻New Shows Launching This Week
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Drinking to Mask and Unmask
Hosted by Chelsey Flood, this series explores the relationship between autism, masking, alcohol, addiction, and survival through lived experience and compassionate conversations.
Clinical Misfits
Dr Mary Sims combines medical expertise and lived experience to examine neurodivergent health, burnout, and the systems that shape our wellbeing.
Autistic Rant Hour
Dr Gal Schkolnik offers sharp, funny, deeply informed discussions about bureaucracy, healthcare, accessibility, and all the systems that make Autistic people ask, “Who designed this?”
The Neurocomplex Creative
Vicky Peterson explores creativity, burnout, chronic illness, and what it means to keep creating in a world that often demands too much from neurodivergent people.
Creative Becoming
Helen Shaddock and Elizabeth Moffett reflect on identity, creativity, self-understanding, and building a life that fits who you actually are.
Hyperfocus FC
Simon Scott, James Hepworth, and Jack Hoban revisit iconic World Cups and the culture surrounding football’s biggest stage through an unmistakably neurodivergent lens.
Collecting Fish
Hosted by James Hepworth, this joyful celebration of fishkeeping proves that special interests are contagious—in the very best way.
Theatrically Authentic
Sarah Atherton-Knight and Simon Scott explore theatre, neurodivergence, creativity, and the realities of building a life in the performing arts.
Regulation Station
Becca Engle provides practical, neuroaffirming guidance for families, educators, advocates, and anyone supporting neurodivergent young people.
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Thank you for joining us for this first edition of This Week on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network. We’ll be back next week with another roundup of everything new on the network.
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The Autistic Culture Podcast Network is always looking for new voices and new perspectives.
If you have an idea for a podcast grounded in Autistic lived experience, culture, identity, advocacy, creativity, or special interests, we’d love to hear from you.