Quiet Power: A Podcast for Autistic Adults
HeyASD
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About This Podcast
A podcast for autistic adults, especially those diagnosed late, navigating identity, sensory life, masking, burnout, and what it actually means to understand yourself after years of not having the words.
Created by the founder of HeyASD, a late-diagnosed autistic adult who started writing because the content he needed didn't exist. Every episode draws from original research and lived experience published at heyasd.com, one of the most-read autism content libraries for adults online.
Honest, grounded, and made without clinical distance. No awareness narratives. No parent perspectives. Just autistic experience, from the inside.
The founder has situational mutism and spent much of his teenage years non-verbal. Speaking has always been costly. AI audio tools make it possible to reach people who prefer audio without that cost. The research, thinking, and perspective are entirely his own.
Learn more: https://www.heyasd.com/pages/about
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S2E4 Autistic Rumination: When Your Brain Won't Let the Conversation End
You said something three days ago. You're still in the debrief. Not because you want to be — because your brain won't file it away. In this episode, we talk about autistic rumination: the way certain…
S2E3 Autism and Grief: Feeling Loss When the Scripts Don't Fit
Grief has a script. There are stages, timelines, expected behaviours, the right way to cry at the right moments. And for many autistic adults, none of it fits. In this episode, we talk about how…
S2E2 Autistic Fatigue: Not Tiredness. Something Deeper
Autistic fatigue isn't about sleep. You can sleep eight hours and wake up already depleted. It's the cumulative cost of processing a world that wasn't designed for your nervous system — every…
S2E1 Alexithymia: When You Don't Know What You're Feeling
You know something is wrong. You're not okay. But if someone asks you to name it, you come up blank. Not because you're not feeling anything. Because the signal between body and language is missing,…
S1E12 When the World Won't Quiet: Yoga as a Sensory Reset
Pause for a moment. Notice the background hum. Feel the fabric against your skin. Take in the light around you. Your nervous system is processing all of it, all the time — and some days the filter…
S1E11 When Music Becomes a Lifeline: Sound as a Tool for Autistic Regulation
The same song, on repeat, for the fortieth time. Not because you forgot it ended — because your nervous system knows exactly what it's doing. In this episode, we talk about music and sound as…
S1E10 Stare, Scroll, Regulate: The Secret Power of Visual Stimming
Staring at a ceiling fan until the world quiets down. Watching light move across a surface. Flicking your fingers at the edge of your vision. From the outside it can look like distraction or absence.…
S1E9 Sensory Overload as an Autistic Adult: When the World Becomes Too Much
There's a moment when the world tips. Sounds stack on top of each other, the light turns sharp, and even the fabric of your shirt seems too loud against your skin. Your brain is sorting more than it…
S1E8 Best Dates for Autistic Adults: Designing Connection Without Overwhelm
Loud bars. Crowded restaurants. Spontaneous plans and the pressure to perform social ease for an entire evening. Standard dating advice isn't just uncomfortable — for many of us, it's…
S1E7 Side Hustles Made for Autistic Strengths
Ever feel like the modern workplace is an obstacle course designed for someone else? Work should fit your brain, not the other way around. In this episode, we talk about side hustles not as hustle…
S1E6 Autistic Burnout From Work: Early Signs and Recovery
A tiredness that sleep doesn't touch. Thinking that feels like moving through wet cement. If rest isn't fixing it, it might not be ordinary exhaustion. In this episode, we talk about autistic burnout…
S1E5 Low-Demand, High-Reward Hobbies for Autistic Adults
Too niche. Too intense. Too much. Many of us spent years dismissing our own interests until we stopped knowing what we actually enjoyed. In this episode, we talk about hobbies as lifelines rather…
S1E4 Best Apps for Autistic Adults: Tools That Support Real Life
Adulthood doesn't come with fewer needs. It just comes with fewer supports, and an expectation that you'll hold it all in your head anyway. In this episode, we talk about digital tools that take some…
S1E3 Clothes for Autism: What Actually Helps
You're standing in front of the closet, freshly showered, and the day hasn't started yet — but the negotiation already has. The wrong seam, fabric, or waistband can quietly drain energy before…
S1E2 Sensory Seeking in Autistic Adults: What It Actually Looks Like
The pressure of a heavy blanket. Brown noise through headphones. The same song on repeat until your body finally settles. Sensory seeking doesn't disappear when you grow up. It just gets quieter,…
S1E1 Are Autistic People Rude? Or Are We Just Living in a World That Wasn't Built for Us
Have you ever been called rude, and known, somewhere underneath the confusion, that you were just being honest? In this episode, we sit with one of the most loaded labels autistic adults carry. Not…
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Quiet Power: A Podcast for Autistic Adults has published 16 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Society & Culture.
Quiet Power: A Podcast for Autistic Adults is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 21m.
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