Validating Our Identity, Culture, and Experience:
The Autistic
VOICE Project
WELCOME TO THE AUTISTIC V.O.I.C.E. PROJECT
Autistic life, spoken plainly.
Where V.O.I.C.E. stands for
Validating Our Identity, Culture,
and Experiences.
We’re Autistic adults and mental health clinicians in conversation about Autistic life — grounded in lived experience, shaped by context, and unwilling to flatten what’s complex.
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ABOUT THE PODCAST
The Autistic VOICE Project is a podcast hosted by Erin Findley, PsyD, and Matt Lowry, LPP.
We talk about what actually shapes Autistic life: burnout, unmasking, relationships, trauma, disability, parenting, and the systems that control access, credibility, and care.
This isn’t a show about making Autistic people easier to understand or more “acceptable.” It’s a place to name what’s real, track patterns as they unfold, and speak directly about the harms and adaptations Autistic people live with every day.
All episodes include full transcripts.
MEET OUR HOSTS
We’re Autistic clinicians working in shared authorship. Leadership, structure, disruption, and synthesis move between us depending on the conversation.
MATT LOWRY, LPP
Matt is an Autistic clinician, evaluator, and educator whose work centers Autistic culture, justice sensitivity, and the everyday realities of Autistic childhood and adulthood.
On the podcast, he often follows threads, finds connections, and names contradictions as they surface — inviting new directions and saying the thing that’s usually left implicit. He’s just as ready to hold structure, precision, and grounding when that’s what the moment calls for.
ERIN FINDLEY, PSYD
Erin is an Autistic psychologist who works with Autistic adults and mixed-neurotype couples. Her focus includes developmental trauma, attachment, and how Autistic people build safety, meaning, and coherence in relationships and systems that weren’t designed for us.
On the podcast, she often tracks structure, pacing, and integration — naming patterns as they emerge and helping conversations land somewhere usable. She’s just as comfortable challenging assumptions, shifting direction, or letting things get messy when clarity requires it.
POPULAR EPISODES:
Autistic Identity vs. Diagnosis
(and Comic Con)
A conversation about why diagnosis
is treated like legitimacy, how identity gets policed, and what gets lost
when access is tied to paperwork.
Cassandra Syndrome, Misattunement,
and Tangents We Refuse to Edit Out
We unpack chronic misattunement in relationships, where “communication problems” are actually about power, safety, and context.
Meet Erin and Matt
Who we are, how this podcast came to be, and why we talk the way we do. It makes more sense once you hear it.
SPEAKING & TRAINING
We offer Autistic-led speaking and training for clinicians, educators, and organizations. Some trainings are co-presented, and others are led individually, depending on the topic and setting.
Together, we teach Autistic-centered therapy, neuro-affirming practice, Autistic-specific attunement skills, and we educate about the systemic conditions that shape Autistic life. Erin’s specialty areas include Brainspotting, developmental trauma, and mixed-neurotype relationships. Matt’s specialty areas include assessment and clinical work with children, adolescents, and young adults.
Whether presented individually or in conversation, our work is grounded in lived experience, clinical practice, and cultural accuracy.
Speaking & Training
SUPPORT THE SHOW
If this work matters to you, you’re already part of it.
Supporting the podcast helps keep Autistic voices in conversation—without translation, without dilution, and with full accessibility for everyone who needs it. Patreon is how this work stays sustainable and shared.
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