A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about her experience called The Loudest Girl in the World. And she found herself imagining a fantasy world where everything is tailored to Lauren’s very specific autistic needs. And she called this magical imagined place, wonderfully devoid of overwhelming stimuli "Autism Pleasantville."
"Obviously," Ober notes, "there’s not a one-size fits all diagnosis or even definition of autism ... as the autism adage goes: 'If you know one autistic person…you know one autistic person.' But despite our wide variety of needs, I wanted to know how design is evolving to better accommodate us" -- how were ideals being handled in the real world.
Autism Pleasantville
446- Flag Days: Good Luck, True South
445- The Clinch
444- Pipe Dreams
443- Matters of Time
442- Tanz Tanz Revolution
441- Abandoned Ships
308- Curb Cuts (Repeat)
440- La Brega in Levittown
439- Welcome to Jurassic Art Redux
438- The Real Book
437- Science Vs Snakes
436- Oops, Our Bad
435- The Megaplex!
434- Artistic License
433- Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer
432- The Batman and the Bridge Builder
431- 12 Heads from the Garden of Perfect Brightness
Judas and the Black Messiah, Episode 1: The Chairman
430- The Doom Boom
Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer from 99% Invisible and Proximity Media
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Articles of Interest
The Best of Car Talk
This American Life
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Freakonomics Radio
The Indicator from Planet Money