Media
Podcasts, press, published work and filmed conversations featuring Kristy.
Explore Kristy’s media work
Browse Kristy’s conversations, interviews, writing and contributions across podcasts, press, research and film.
Podcasts, conversations & interviews
Long-form discussions across parenting, PDA, autistic culture, burnout, identity and relational safety.
Press, articles & book contributions
Published interviews, feature articles, essays and contributions to books and anthologies.
Filmed interviews & presentations
Recorded interviews, webinars, symposium presentations and educational conversations.
Research, citations & essays
Peer-reviewed work, professional writing and substantial essays that quote, cite or acknowledge Kristy’s contribution.
Podcasts, conversations & interviews
Long-form conversations exploring PDA, autistic identity, family life, burnout, parenting, perinatal experience and neurodivergent culture with Kristy.
Recent conversations
The Empowered Parent · August 2024
Creating an inclusive world
Neurodivergent children, inclusion and changing the conditions around a child.
Mini Maestros · Interview
Celebration of neurodivergence
Early childhood, neurodivergent identity and meeting children with curiosity and respect.
Neurodivergent Birth · November 2023
PDA and perinatal experiences
Pregnancy, birth and the support that can make perinatal experiences safer.
Midlife AF · October 2023
Radical AF
Late identification, autonomy, burnout and stepping away from expectation.
Full-Tilt Parenting · February 2023
Autistic burnout
Deep rest and the harm caused when burnout is viewed through a neuronormative lens.
Parenting with Impact · January 2022
Autism, PDA and combative behaviours
Threat responses, anxiety and understanding behaviour through the nervous system.
Earlier conversations
Autism Stories · November 2021
Kristy Forbes
The PDA profile, meaningful support and the importance of autistic culture.
The Neurodiversity Podcast · May 2021
“Pathological” Demand Avoidance? Words Matter
PDA, demand avoidance and the language used around neurodivergence.
Two Sides of the Spectrum · May 2021
A family-centred approach to PDA
Family-centred support, autistic experience and the whole family context.
Reimagine Peaceful Parenting · 2021
Understanding autism
Identity, inclusion and what changes when autism is understood through lived experience.
Uniquely Human · December 2020
Autism at the holidays
Supporting autistic people through the intensity and expectations of holiday periods.
Full-Tilt Parenting · 2019
Radical acceptance and family life
PDA and supporting neurodivergent children without an intention to fix or change them.
Additional conversations
Queers & Co. · Podcast
I thank the universe for the Autistic community
Queer and autistic experience, belonging and the power of community.
Bright & Quirky · Interview
How to talk to demand-avoidant kids
Language, communication and reducing the sense of threat.
Bright & Quirky · Interview
Extend yourself some grace
Capacity, self-compassion and stopping before the nervous system is forced beyond its limits.
Press, articles & book contributions
Published features and contributions carrying Kristy’s lived and professional perspective into wider public conversations.
THE PSYCHOLOGIST · JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024
‘We are not a vulnerable community, we are made vulnerable’
A substantial feature conversation with Kristy Forbes and Kieran Rose exploring neurodivergence, education, trauma, agency and the systems that create vulnerability.
I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL · BOOK CONTRIBUTION
Limited by Our Own Perspectives
Kristy is one of the contributing autistic and parent voices in Meghan Ashburn and Jules Edwards’ collection.
WE’VE GOT THIS · BOOK CONTRIBUTION
Stories by disabled parents
Kristy contributes to Eliza Hull’s anthology, reflecting on neurodivergent parenting, identity and community.
ABC EVERYDAY · MAY 2021
If, when and how to tell a child they are autistic
Kristy contributes an autistic perspective on identity, family culture and access to positive autistic community.
FORBES · MARCH 2021
A lesson on Pathological Demand Avoidance
Dr Nancy Doyle speaks with Kristy about PDA, neurodivergent identity and the consequences of being misunderstood.
PDA NORTH AMERICA · PUBLISHED ARTICLE
PDA and the need to win
Equity, threat, nervous-system safety and the meaning beneath a PDA child’s need to win or be in charge.
INDEPENDENT EDUCATION · MAY 2024
Embracing difference: Welcoming neurodivergent teachers
Kristy is quoted extensively on valuing neurodivergent educators, resisting ‘othering’ and addressing the systems that create a need for support.
Books and published contributions
Forewords, chapters, acknowledgements and books that carry or reference Kristy’s work.
AUTISM LEVEL UP! · FOREWORD · 2024
Energy: The Framework, Tools, Strategies & Logic to Support Regulation
Kristy wrote the foreword to Amy C. Laurent and Jacquelyn H. Fede’s practical framework for understanding and supporting regulation.
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS · 2024
Out of the Box
Kristy’s work and perspectives are referenced throughout Rebecca Sparrow and Madonna King’s guide to navigating neurodivergence.
MACMILLAN AUSTRALIA · 2023
Love & Autism
Kristy’s work and perspectives are referenced throughout Kay Kerr’s celebration of autistic lives, relationships and love.
HARDIE GRANT · ACKNOWLEDGEMENT · 2022
Come Over to My House
Kristy is acknowledged in Eliza Hull and Sally Rippin’s picture book, illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett, celebrating the homes and lives of disabled people.
BOOK FOREWORD
Making Peace with Autism
Kristy wrote the foreword to Zoe Martin’s memoir about family life, self-discovery, radical acceptance and connection.
Research, citations & essays
A collection of academic and professional work that quotes, cites or acknowledges Kristy’s lived-experience scholarship.
RESEARCH-INFORMED ESSAY · MARCH 2025
Autism and Attachment Theory
Kieran Rose directly attributes the concept of ‘plugging in’ to Kristy and uses it to explore felt safety, sensory experience and autistic attachment.
FOUNDATION EXPLAINER · DECEMBER 2024
Internalized Ableism
Stimpunks Foundation quotes Kristy’s Flourishing with Acceptance presentation at length in its explainer on internalised ableism, masking and self-acceptance.
PSYCHOLOGY FEATURE · SEPTEMBER 2024
How pathological demand avoidance blew up online
This Australian Psychological Society republication of The Age quotes Kristy on the PDA nervous system, internalised labels, autonomy and the importance of self-identification.
PROFESSIONAL HEALTH ARTICLE · OCTOBER 2022
The benefits of a neurodiverse workplace
HCF quotes Kristy on neurodivergence, respectful language and why identity-first language matters to much of the autistic community.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE · 2021
Leveling Up Regulatory Support Through Community Collaboration
Kristy’s first-person accounts of autistic exhaustion, burnout and energy-language are quoted in the article. Three inTune Pathways posts also appear in its formal references.
RESEARCH COMPANION ESSAY · 2021
One day they will join us in the sun
In the essay accompanying his academic masking research, Kieran Rose acknowledges Kristy’s work and conversations as shaping his thinking about autism and masking.
Filmed interviews & presentations
Recorded interviews and presentations available to watch and revisit.
REFRAMING AUTISM · FILMED PRESENTATION
Flourishing with acceptance
Recorded for the Symposium on Autistic Flourishing: Acceptance, Authenticity and Autonomy.
AUCADEMY · RECORDED WEBINAR
PDA: Kristy Forbes educates Aucademy
A detailed presentation and conversation about PDA led through lived experience and education.
REFRAMING AUTISM · FILMED INTERVIEW
Kristy Forbes on identity
Autistic identity, self-understanding and the shift away from deficit-based narratives.
YELLOW LADYBUGS · FILMED INTERVIEW
Supporting Autistic Girls at School — Kristy
Kristy’s contribution to Yellow Ladybugs’ Supporting Autistic Girls at School video series.
YELLOW LADYBUGS · FULL PRESENTATION
Supporting Autistic Girls at School — Full Video
The complete Yellow Ladybugs video exploring the experiences and support needs of autistic girls at school.
SCHOOLTV · FILMED INTERVIEW
Neurodiversity: full interview
Kristy appears in SchoolTV’s neurodiversity series alongside other lived-experience and professional voices.
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