Show notes:

• In this episode I speak with Lizzie Huxley-Jones about representations of autism in the media and in books as well as the anthology she edited called STIM, an anthology of essays by autistic writers

• We discuss the fact that most people writing about autistic people aren’t actually autistic and why this is a problem

• She gave some amazing book recs which i’ll list below:

• The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas

• Forever Neverland by Susan Adrian

• Do You Know Me? by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westscott

• Explaining Humans by Camila Pang

• A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

• We also talk about the publisher Knights Of who exclusively publish diverse stories, I even recorded an episode with Knights Of’s Editor, Eishar, which you can check out here

• “If you haven’t read anything by an autistic person, make that the thing you do this month.” - Lizzie Huxley-Jones

• You can follow Lizzie on Twitter, Instagram and her Website

• Thanks for listening!