Tony Attwood

I read Trevor Hoyle's Blake seven books, which were okay until afterlife, which is one of the most dreadful books I've ever read.

Um, No, that was Tony Atwood, wasn't it? Atwood.

Tony

Atwood, who also wrote Turlough and the Earthling Dilemma.

Because I don't know if you have, you may not have this phenomena in psychosis, but in neurodiversity, there's definitely a phenomena where professionals work quite a long time in the field and they then get their own diagnosis.

Tony Atwood recently got his own diagnosis at the age of 74, having spent his whole career working in autism and has now come out as having autism himself, as being autistic himself.

And that's, I think, an interesting element because then his life becomes lived experience backwards, as it were.

I think if there's a power attached to something, or a particular group of people, and I'm not commenting about Tony Atwood, I don't know anything about him, but generally, if there's a power attached, if a particular status is going to bring power with it, then it's inevitable there's going to be a desire for that.

Maybe that's going to be a good thing, maybe it'll destigmatise things a bit, people will start coming out.

But I think people need to be very careful of that, because I think We talked about how it's very difficult for other people to then criticize.

So Dr.

Rob, uh, Dr. Rogers Yu of CASI, the Cultural Autism Studies at Yale, Tony Atwood.

For folks that know Tony, Dr. Tony Atwood, who endorsed.

Um, Eva Mendes, the author of Conversations on Love and Autism, Dr. Rachel Allen, who wrote The Pleasure is All Yours, Dr. Kim Bowling, who's an IFIO trainer, Dr. Wynn Lawson, who's an autistic psychologist, researcher, adjunct professor, Dr. Todd Love, um, who has developed a model on ADHD, Doc- or Michelle Mayes, who wrote Betrayal Blind, thank you so much, and Jenna Ramirez, my dear friend of both of ours, and the author of several books, um, All Together You: IFS Integration, and her latest one, Move Toward.

So blah, blah, blah.

Now, did anybody guess what that clue was, what the connection was between that? No, right? Okay, so Harry Dean is the name of the main character in the motion picture Gambit, played by Michael Caine in the original Gambit.

And Colin Firth in the remake So there we go We won't have one of those tonight But thank you Dave for that And yes Welcome along to The penultimate episode Of Series B Which is of course Keeper Those of you who are regular viewers or listeners to the podcast will know that I do read from the official program guide by Tony Atwood that I refer to as the Bible.

I'll give you the synopsis of the story.

And then we talk about our views on the episode.