In this episode of Autistic Culture 101, Dr. Angela Kingdon continues our journey through the 10 Pillars of Autistic Culture as we move onto Pillar 3 — Norm Challenging.

This remastered episode explores the life and legacy of Emily Dickinson through an autistic lens, revealing how her truth-telling, gender defiance, sensory preferences, and poetic rebellion made her a quintessential norm challenger—and an early voice of neurodivergent power.

🎧 What You’ll Learn

Why Emily Dickinson’s life was an act of radical autistic norm defiance.
How literal thinking, moral clarity, and pattern recognition challenged the social structures around her.
The connection between rejection sensitivity and creative brilliance.
How “masking” created safety—but didn’t stop her from telling the truth.
What we can reclaim from being called “too intense” or “too much.”

Related Episodes:

Emily Dickinson (Ep 3)

Courtney Love (Referenced, Ep 89)

Being an Expat (Ep 105)

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