I had such a heartfelt and illuminating conversation with Melanie, founder of the Autistic Grandma online community first about autistic online communities, then about combating sexism in the world of breast cancer care.
Listen to the audio by clicking the audio link below or on Stitcher here or iTunes here
Read the transcript by clicking the file below the audio.
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Transcript by Julie Ann Lee: Transcript_Melanie_Keiling_Noncompliant.
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Bio
Melanie Keiling is an autistic mother of autistic children. She runs the blog Autistic Grandma, and campaigns for autistic human rights, and works with the autistic community directly to provide emotional support for individual self healing, self care, and personal development. Her goal is to create a stronger community by providing a platform for change in the way autism is viewed by the world, and to help gather autistics together to support one another.
Links
Autistic Grandma page on Facebook
“Going Flat” After Mastectomy: Patient-Reported Outcomes by Online Survey. Dr. Jennifer Baker, et al. Annals of Surgical Oncology (2021)
Women Who ‘Go Flat’ After Mastectomy Report Being Generally OK With It. Kate Kneisel. Medpage Today. February 5, 2021. Study Authors: Jennifer L. Baker, Don S. Dizon, et al.
Flat closure after mastectomy: Are your patients satisfied with the results? Kimberly B Bowles. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Published February 2020.
I wrote this about my year fighting cancer during the pandemic.
I wrote this about the pandemic, cancer and what’s happened to time.
