ASD Is Ability
A podcast dedicated to exploring neurodiversity, with a particular focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder. Short, honest episodes on how ASD is ability.
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25 episodes so far, newest first. Each one opens on Podbean, where you can play it straight away.
Season 2 · 15 episodes
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Time, Priorities, and Making It Count
How much time we have, how we use it and how we find it.
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Mental Health, Reaching Out, and Facing Difficult Moments
A heavier topic than usual, about people in very hard times.
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Life as a Chess Game: Planning Ahead and Owning Your Position
The way we take options in life, seen through the game of chess.
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When the World Feels Out of Control: Finding Ground in Uncertain Times
What happens when the world moves in a direction you did not choose and cannot control.
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When the News Finds You — Information, Anxiety, and the ASD Filter
How people with ASD decide which news to let in.
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When You Are Part of a New Ritual in a Friendly Environment
How to relax in new situations, with Chinese New Year and Yee Sang as examples.
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Unscripted: What to Do When Graham Norton Has No Pants On
Situations so bizarre and unexpected that the brain stops.
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Be Yourself No Matter What They Say
Embracing your differences as abilities, with tools for self acceptance.
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How Are You? The Meaning Behind Questions Like That
How do we answer that question as someone with ASD?
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Master of Wine, Neurodiversity and Preparing for Difficult Exams
Could very difficult exams favour a certain type of neurodiversity?
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Traffic Lights, Wedding and How to Ask Important Questions
Thinking about your audience when you ask something important.
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Visualisation Is One Tool to Achieve More
What if you could achieve more by thinking that it has already happened?
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Come Back and Halloween
The first episode of season two: why the show is back and how Halloween looks from an ASD view.
Season 1 · 10 episodes
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Season Finale. Last episode of this season where I talk about a new podcast that I want to launch.
A look at the next venture, talking about wine and consumer preferences.
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Deadlines and expectations. Taking possibly the most difficult exam: the Master of Wine and lessons from neurodiversity and ASD
Sometimes we create and impose our own deadlines and expectations.
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Mood and neurodiversity. Ways to manage our good and bad days
How mood is influenced for people with ASD and how we present to others.
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PDPA – A neurodiverse approach to view challenges and be more effective at addressing them
How an autism spectrum perspective changes the way we face challenges.
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Let's get the party started. How different is ASD perspective? Plus an insight on my experience on not delaying sharing memories.
Whether to go to the party, clearing up misconceptions and recording memories while they are fresh.
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Why is that guy standing first in the line to get on the plane? ASD experiences at the airport.
Experiences from airports and flying, to build awareness and understanding.
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Reasons for podcast title, drive and how I have launched
Why the podcast has its name, what drives it and how it launched.
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Understanding ASD and links with Asperger
What ASD means, how its definition shaped perceptions and the older term Asperger.
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Introducing ASD Is Ability
The first episode: how ASD is perceived and defined.
ASD is ability.
About the show
ASD Is Ability is a podcast dedicated to exploring neurodiversity, with a particular focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD. It is hosted by Joan Torrents, who talks openly about his own experience and about what ASD means in everyday life, from airports and parties to exams, news and mood.
The show starts from one idea: that ASD is ability. Each episode shares a perspective, a story or a tool you can try, for people with ASD, for people who live or work alongside them, and for anyone curious about how different minds work.
Joan is also the author of Captivate to Thrive, a practical guide to turning ideas into reality.
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