Podcast appearances and mentions of jennifer mcilwee myers

Today's episode is a bit different, because I won't be doing any interviewing - I'm flying solo. It's been a rough week for us all, because my father-in-law died on Monday afternoon, and he was just a great guy. A coach, a teacher, a veteran, a lifelong athlete, and a kind and gentle man. I'm feeling nostalgic, so I wanted to give a look back and give you guys a quick guide to our previous episodes to help you find a good one you might have missed. 

 The episodes from the parent perspective are:
            Numbers 4 & 5 with Keri Bowers, fillmaker and art therapist on raising a son on the spectrum
                Number 7 with Dan Korins on his son, who has an amazing voice
               Number 8 with Rupert Isaacson, NYT best-selling author and filmmaker of "The Horse Boy"    Number 12 with my husband Jeff Waites, on raising the Romanator
           Number 14 with Wayne Gilpin, author, and autism book and magazine publisher
    Number 18 with Kara Wilson, on raising a daughter with Asperger's
                Number 21 with Margret Ericsdottir, filmmaker and mom of a nonverbal teenaged boy
    Number 28 with Cynthia Lord, NYT best-selling children's author, and mom to a young adult son with autism    Number 29 with Julie Cole, entrepreneur and mother of 6 kids, the oldest of whom has autism

 Writing from the first-hand perspective of autism     Episode 2 with Temple Grandin, autism rock star    Episodes 9 & 10 with Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie and author    Episode 23 with Tom Angleberger, Aspie, NYT best-selling author of a series of kids books with Aspie main characters

 The sibling perspective is highlighted with my own kids in episode 6

 Authors- we have a bunch in the parent category (Rupert Isaacson, Wayne Gilpin, Cynthia Lord), but also:
                Episode 3 with James Ball, chair of the national Autism Society and autism behavioral consultant
               Episode 20 with scholar, NYT best-selling author and speaker Andrew Solomon
    And then there are therapists and therapies on
                Episode 13 with Alisa Anderson on adaptive ski
                Episode 16 with Sarah Bronson on therapeutic horseback riding    Episode 17 with Jill Schacht on occupational therapy
                Episode 19 with Elizabeth Mortati on art therapy
                Episode 25 with Rachel See on music therapy 

School & Home focused:
                We talk in-home support in number 11 with Lauren O'Neil
               We talk school inclusion in episode 24 with Tim Villegas

 Episode 22 with Eric Tivers is about how ADHD tends to co-occur with autism

 And then there are two episodes not specifically related to autism, but to being different: Episode 1 with NYT best-selling author, wine expert and social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk
    Episode 27 with NYT best-selling author, magazine publisher, super nice guy, and business consultant Chris Brogan

 And the last episodes I haven't mentioned are about Kid Gigawatt (that's us!)
    Number 15 is about why we sell t-shirts to microfund therapies for kiddos with autism
    Number 26 is about the road trip documentary movie we're making this summer

 And today is episode 30, so there you have it! And after 4 planes and a funeral, what I'd really love more than anything, is to hear from you. Please email me your funny stories from Autismland, I'd love to put together an episode together just with some of the bright spots. So when we're feeling a bit blue, we can have a good laugh. Email me at kelley@kidgigawatt.com- I'm counting on you! :)
 Kelley PS Here's a link to the blog post I mentioned on the podcast, Remembering Opa.

Wayne Gilpin began his publishing career by bringing car repair and law books to market. When his son Alex was diagnosed with autism, he joined the Autism Society of America, and became its president in 1987. Alex was 15 when the first edition of Wayne Gilpin’s lighthearted self-published book was released in 1993, Laughing & Loving with Autism: A Collection of “Real Life” Warm & Humorous Stories. The 500 copies he conservatively printed sold out in just 3 days.   He founded Future Horizons in 1996, dedicated to publishing books relating to autism, and by now they have published over 140 books as well a truly excellent bi-monthly magazine, Autism Asperger’s Digest. Future Horizons organizes educational autism conferences all over the globe, featuring renowned speakers and experts such as Dr. Temple Grandin, Dr. Tony Attwood, Dr. Jed Baker, Jennifer McIlwee Myers, and Dr. James Ball.   Alex passed away in 2008, but shared an apartment as a young adult with a friend with autism in North Carolina. There’s a fantastic article from the Chapel Hill News here on how they successfully navigated this living arrangement.

Ok guys, if you need a laugh, this is the interview for you. I first heard Jennifer McIlwee Myers speak at this year's Portland Autism Conference, and I cackled laughed. Inappropriately loudly. Then I laughed the entire way through this interview, AND I laughed again a week later while editing the audio. I am a fan. Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's as an adult, is married to an Aspie, has a sister with Asperger's, and a brother with Autism. She co-wrote Asperger's and Girls in 2006, and wrote How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's in 2010. Her new book, Growing Up with Sensory Issues will be released in July, 2014. We chat about surgical strike shoe shopping at Nordstrom, the zombie apocalypse, manscaping (

Ok guys, if you need a laugh, this is the interview for you. I first heard Jennifer McIlwee Myers speak at this year's Portland Autism Conference, and I cackled laughed. Inappropriately loudly. Then I laughed the entire way through this interview, AND I laughed again a week later while editing the audio. I am a fan. Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's as an adult, is married to an Aspie, has a sister with Asperger's, and a brother with Autism. She co-wrote Asperger's and Girls in 2006, and wrote How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's in 2010. Her new book, Growing Up with Sensory Issues will be released in July, 2014. We chat about surgical strike shoe shopping at Nordstrom, the zombie apocalypse, manscaping (

Tune-in for this special interview with Jennifer McIlwee Myers who wrote an incredible book on social skills and life skills training that Temple Grandin herself asked her to write!

Tune-in for this special interview with Jennifer McIlwee Myers who wrote an incredible book on social skills and life skills training that Temple Grandin herself asked her to write!