Who gets to tell the story of autism?

For many of us, our earliest understandings of autism came from professionals, reports, and systems that framed Autistic lives through deficit, risk, and correction. Long before we encountered Autistic voices, we were often handed stories about what autism is; and what it supposedly means for a person’s future.

In this episode of Autistic Identity with NeuroHub, David explores autism as story rather than symptom.

We look at how narratives shape identity, how internalised deficit stories quietly turn into self-surveillance and self-contempt, and how re-storying autism can become a gentle, ongoing practice of reclaiming meaning, dignity, and self-trust.

This conversation is for:

• Autistic people exploring their own identity• Families and carers wanting to move beyond “fixing” narratives• Professionals seeking relational, neurodivergence-competent ways of understanding Autistic lives

It’s an invitation to notice the stories we’re living inside — and to ask whether they are helping us breathe.

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This episode explores Autistic identity not as a fixed label, but as something living, responsive, and shaped over time.

Rather than treating “realising you’re Autistic” as the end of a journey, this conversation sits with what happens next; how identity shifts as our environments change, as safety grows or disappears, as burnout, recovery, community, ageing, and connection reshape how we relate to ourselves.

Drawing on lived experience, this episode challenges the idea that change means inauthenticity. Autistic identity isn’t something we possess once and for all; it’s something we live, negotiate, and revisit as we move through the world.

This is an episode about becoming rather than arriving.About coherence rather than consistency.About giving ourselves permission to grow without feeling like we’ve lost who we are.

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