Dr Rachel Moseley: Autistic Voices, Challenges, Joys, and Research Empathy

About this episode

Dr. Rachel Moseley discusses the challenges and joys of autistic individuals, focusing on research related to autistic burnout and suicidality.

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Rachel Moseley on Autistic Suicide Prevention, Masking, Misdiagnosis, and Autistic Menopause Host Tony Mantor in Nashville welcomes returning guest Dr. Rachel Mosley to discuss her UK-based research on autistic suicidality, self-injury, masking/burnout, misdiagnosis, and menopause. Mosley explains that changes in autistic suicide rates are hard to track due to delayed and incomplete reporting, and cites data indicating suicide as the leading cause of death in autistic c...

People in this episode

Host: Tony Mantor

Guest: Dr. Rachel Moseley

Topics covered

• autism
• mental health
• suicidality
• research
• support

Keywords

• autistic burnout
• suicidality
• masking
• menopause
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Child Mortality Database

Places: UK

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