Disclosing one's Autistic identity, Annette Foster, with Chloe & Jessica: Aucademy in discussion
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2020-11-16

Originally aired on Aucademy: Friday 13th November 2020, 20:00 GMT/London; 13:00 PDT:
*Disclosing one's Autistic identity, Annette Foster, with Chloe & Jessica: Aucademy in discussion*

Chloe & Jessica will be chatting to Annette Foster about disclosing one's Autistic identity, and the similarities to disclosing, more than once, one's sexual and/or gender identity. 

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Guest speakers: 

Annette Foster is a multidisciplinary performance and live artist, Autistic self-advocate and PhD researcher. Annette’s autobiographical, multidisciplinary performance work has been informed by feminism, identity, gender, sexuality, and difference. Annette is dyslexic and dyspraxic, and was diagnosed as autistic aged 39. This has led her to become an autistic and neurodivergent self-advocate and to undertake a funded PhD at the University of Kent starting in 2016. Annette’s PhD is articulating the experiences of women’s and people with complex gender identities of being autistic through visual and performance art. 

Jessica Chudasama-Alloway is Aucademy’s part-time Administrative Manager. Jess completed a degree in Psychology, and while a student discovered her Autistic identity, and was diagnosed in 2020. Jessica will be carrying out an MA in Advanced Child Protection starting 2021.

Jessica met Chloe and Annette through the University of Kent Autistic group, and worked through their So, You’re Autistic? pre- and post-diagnostic programme – twice! Due to Jessica’s background and involvement with Chloe and Annette’s work, Jess has been supporting So, You’re Autistic and Aucademy to deliver training on Autistic experience, and is knowledgeable about the lived experience of hallucinations. Jessica also experiences synaesthesia, and typically sees neurodivergent people as regular shapes and colours – like a red square – and sees neurotypical people as irregular shapes – like a zig zag. 

Lnks: 

https://aucademy.co.uk/annette-foster/ 

https://aucademy.co.uk/jessica-chudasama-alloway-administrative-manager-2/

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Dr Chloe Farahar - Autistic academic, educator, and self-advocate

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