Kala Allen Omeiza: I Got Bullied In An Autism Lab
About this episode
Kala Allen Omeiza discusses her late autism diagnosis and the challenges faced as a high achiever in autism research.
Send us Fan Mail Watching someone succeed can fool us into thinking they’re fine. Then Kala Allen Omeiza says something that stops us cold: she worked in top autism research spaces and still didn’t learn she was autistic until 24, after a painful rupture, a mental health crisis, and therapy that finally connected the dots. We talk about what late autism diagnosis can look like when you’re a high achiever: sensory overload that gets dismissed, social communication gaps that get mislabeled, an...
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Host: Michael Mackniak, Esq
Guest: Kala Allen Omeiza
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Organizations: autism research spaces
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