This direction brings together educational and public-facing projects where the first-person experience of autistic people becomes central: self-advocacy, explaining one’s own needs, and speaking about sensitivity, adaptation, family, stress, and quality of life without an external “corrective” gaze.
Project “Autism Through Autistic Eyes”
An educational video series by Alena Akulova with Ivan Yaroslavtsev about life with autism, sensory sensitivity, adaptation, family, stress, support, and the lived experience of an autistic person from within.
Project Participants
- Alena Akulova is the founder of the TDP Space educational project; in this project, she guides the conversation and connects a professional framework with respect for lived experience from within.
- Ivan Yaroslavtsev is a project participant who speaks about his own experience as an autistic person, adult diagnosis, sensitivity, adaptation, and everyday support strategies.
Episode Topics
- adult diagnosis and personal story;
- sensory sensitivity, hyper- and hyposensitivity;
- stress, digestion, sleep, and self-care;
- family, school, socialization, and adaptation;
- aggression, overload, rocking, and ways of support;
- why the word “normal” can hurt;
- autism, science, and myths.