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Talks, cut into stories. A few minutes each, with captions on every one.

• ArgumentRoo Harris 2:21 · CC2 minutes 21 seconds, captioned The case that every autistic owned business is a social enterprise Roo Harris At Think Autism Melbourne in 2026, a panellist defined autistic enterprise by its social mission, and Roo Harris called entrepreneurship the ultimate accommodation. Both were questioning a model that leaves autistic people waiting on employers.
• Lived experienceKyriakos Gold 9:13 · CC9 minutes 13 seconds, captioned Kyriakos Gold on a series of missed cues, and why he quit every community board Kyriakos Gold In the keynote at Think Autism Melbourne in 2026, Kyriakos Gold traced a diagnosis that came only six or seven years earlier back through decades of misread signals, and explained why he had stepped away from community leadership.
• ArgumentHannah Badenhop 3:07 · CC3 minutes 7 seconds, captioned Autistic burnout is different from tiredness, and a holiday does not fix it Anita Aherne, Hannah Badenhop and 1 more Opening a Think Autism Melbourne panel in 2026, Anita Aherne said workplaces still had no clear definition of autistic burnout. The panellists described what it is and why rest alone does not end it.
• Lived experience“to the point where I thought I was going to get sued if I spoke about it on LinkedIn” 1:24 · CC1 minute 24 seconds, captioned The peer worker who once feared being sued for mentioning her ADHD Georgia Zentrich At Think Autism Sydney in 2025, Georgia Zentrich described once fearing she would be sued for speaking about her ADHD, and finding a job in which she is employed to share her lived experience.
• ArgumentKyriakos Gold 1:52 · CC1 minute 52 seconds, captioned Think Autism Melbourne heard that negative messaging about autism was no accident Dr Sharon Zivkovic, Kyriakos Gold Opening Think Autism Melbourne in 2026, Dr Sharon Zivkovic used the iceberg model from systems thinking to explain how public mindsets flow through into structures, and argued that negative messaging was preparing the ground for NDIS change.
• Community voiceChristina Chun 6:30 · CC6 minutes 30 seconds, captioned Sharon Zivkovic said autistic expectations had risen and called it a social movement Dr Sharon Zivkovic, Christina Chun Opening the closing session of the 2024 Sydney symposium, Dr Sharon Zivkovic said the bar for future autistic lives had been raised in two years. Participants then described what the two days had meant to them.
• ArgumentDani Bultitude 3:51 · CC3 minutes 51 seconds, captioned A practitioner warned that neuroaffirming practice loses its point once written as rules Dani Bultitude Asked how to separate neuroaffirming practice from the label, the first practitioner to answer at Think Autism Melbourne took aim at policy language, and named Thriving Kids as the risk.
• Findings“autistic people have an amazing array of skills and can do almost any job that’s out there” 3:44 · CC3 minutes 44 seconds, captioned Stigma is the biggest barrier to autistic employment, Sandra Thom-Jones argued Sandra Thom-Jones At the 2024 Autistic Pride Day Symposium, the researcher told an employment panel that autistic people lose out at every stage of work because of what others believe about them.

Our podcast starts on 5 November 2026. Every lesson of The Autistic Standard has an audio companion, hosted by Kyriakos Gold with Dr Judy Tang or Georgia Prattis. The scripts are here to read while the recordings are made.

• Listen What autistic means: the basics Tier 1, 4 to 6 minutes
• Listen Sensory safety: just turn it down Tier 1, approximately 4 minutes
• Listen Stimming and self-regulation Tier 1, 4 to 5 minutes
• Listen The double empathy problem Tier 1, 4 to 5 minutes
• Listen The bystander move: what to do when someone is overwhelmed Tier 1, 4 to 5 minutes
• Listen Recognising distress Protocol A, 4 to 6 minutes
• Listen What makes it worse: harms to avoid Protocol A, 4 to 6 minutes
• Listen The quiet protocol: what to do Protocol A, 4 to 5 minutes

• Policy call, 5 minutes to readClosed tenders and NDIS changes threaten autistic led social enterprisesRebecca McCash
• Findings, 4 minutes to readRoo Harris reports a quarter of Scale Investors pitches from neurodivergent foundersRoo Harris, Kyriakos Gold
• Lived experience, 5 minutes to readKyriakos Gold on a series of missed cues, and why he quit every community boardKyriakos Gold
• Debate, 5 minutes to readIndigenous business as a model for autistic enterprise, and why it scaledDr Sharon Zivkovic

Courses built with the people they are about.

Six tiers and three protocols, about five minutes a module. Every tier and protocol is free with your campaign membership. Your place is kept in your account.

• Community / Foundation Tier 1, 6 modules, free
• Distress Protocol A, 5 modules, free
• Communication breakdown Protocol B, 3 modules, free
• Public safety Protocol C, 4 modules, free
• Individual / Ally Tier 2, 5 modules
• Events / Community Organisations Tier 3, 5 modules
• Small Business / Manager Tier 4, 6 modules
• Organisation / Policy Tier 5, 6 modules
• Corporate / Leadership Tier 6, 6 modules

• May2027 Think Autism BrisbaneDates and venue to be announced. Register your interest.
• 2026 Autistic Pride Day 2026Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Melbourne. 48 talks in the Library.
• 2025 Think Autism 2025UTS, Sydney. 44 talks in the Library.
• 2024 Autistic Pride Day Symposium 2024The Commons George Street, Sydney, and The Commons QV, Melbourne. 94 talks in the Library.
• 2023 Autistic Pride Day Symposium 2023The Commons QV, Melbourne. 29 talks in the Library.