In this thought-provoking podcast episode, CEO and Founder, Carole Edmond, and Alexis Quinn, reveal Alexis’s SeeMe Big 5 data points, connect her intersecting identities, and look at how this had a huge role in her heart-breaking story.
* Please note some of the content might be triggering
The discussion tackles pressing issues surrounding the challenges and trauma faced by neurodivergent individuals. They shed light on the prevalent microtraumas, discriminatory attitudes, and restrictive practices that particularly affect neurodivergent people in educational and healthcare settings. Additionally, they address the underrepresentation of autism research in girls and women, highlighting the need for attention and resources in this area.
Alexis displays such courage as she joins the dots of her intersecting identities and shares her personal experiences of being violated and strictly monitored in hospital settings. Carole and Alexis delve into the intersection of her SeeMe Big 5 data points – socioeconomic status, gender, age, disability, and race. Alexis candidly shares her experience of depending on state-provided resources due to her working-class background, which led to a four-year institutionalisation where her basic human needs and rights were violated. But in contrast, Alexis recognises the privileges she possessed as a white British citizen with a British passport. She also acknowledged how her graduate education, representation of Great Britain in swimming, and the ways aspects of her autistic disposition supported the effective utilisation of her resources and skills to execute her escape and subsequently become an advocate for preventing similar experiences for others.
This is such a poignant episode and one not to be missed, but please be aware some of the content might be triggering.
"That meant that I was detained and that I was to be treated with contempt. And it meant that I entered this cycle of overload restraint, solitary confinement. Overload, restraint, solitary confinement to the degree that I needed to escape."
