HeyJaredQuiet Power: A Podcast for Autistic Adults
A podcast for autistic adults exploring what actually helps in daily life — sensory strategies, work, identity, and representation. Honest, grounded, created by an autistic adult for autistic adults.
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Echoism: When Empathy Becomes Self-Erasure (opens the original)
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You take up as little space as possible. You mirror the people around you, defer your own needs, apologise for wanting anything at all — until one day you realise you're not quite sure what you want, only what won't be a bother. In this episode, we talk about echoism — what happens when empathy curdles into self-erasure, and masking becomes a way of vanishing rather than fitting in. We look at how it forms as protection, why it's so easy to mistake for humility, and what it feels like to slowly
Autistic Fawning: The People-Pleasing No One Warns You About (opens the original)
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You agree before you've decided what you think. You smile through discomfort, smooth over tension, become whatever keeps the room calm — and only later, alone, notice how far you drifted from what you actually wanted. In this episode, we talk about fawning — the survival response that turns connection into constant accommodation. We explore how people-pleasing becomes automatic after years of learning that safety means being easy to be around, why it's so often mistaken for kindness or just "bei
Autistic, or Just "Socially Awkward"? (opens the original)
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The conversation ended an hour ago and you're still in it — cataloguing the pause that ran too long, the joke that didn't land, the thing you said that you're sure was wrong. You've spent a lifetime being told you're a bit awkward, and you've believed it. In this episode, we talk about the line between social awkwardness and being autistic — and why so much of what gets called awkward is really the gap between you and a social script you were never handed. We look at masking, the exhaustion of c
The Empathy Myth: Feeling Too Much, Not Too Little (opens the original)
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You walk into a room and feel the mood before anyone speaks. You carry other people's distress home and can't put it down. And yet somewhere there's a file that says you lack empathy. In this episode, we talk about the empathy myth — how feeling too much, not too little, gets misread as coldness when it doesn't arrive in the expected packaging. We explore the difference between feeling for someone and performing that feeling on cue, why overwhelm can look like distance from the outside, and what
Autistic Joy: It Was Never Too Much (Season Finale) (opens the original)
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The light hits the wall at an angle that does something specific and electric to your chest. You say a satisfying word out loud three times just to feel the shape of it. Your hands start moving on their own, because the feeling inside you is too big to hold still. In this episode we close the season with autistic joy, and we get specific, because joy in the abstract is useless. The spreadsheet at two in the morning when the data finally behaves. Tears in a museum, not at the art, but at how beau
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