{"id":67,"date":"2026-04-17T00:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:08:55","slug":"episode-11-nick-walkers-doctoral-dissertation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Episode  11 &#8211; Nick Walker&#8217;s Doctoral Dissertation Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vince and Vanessa dash through part 2 of their discussion of Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration by Nick Walker. This includes stories of Nick Walker&#8217;s experiences with Aikido, how he came to start training, how it changed his embodiment, and how his Autistic traits benefitted not only him but his students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-default has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.rss.com\/autistic-small-talk\/2742229?theme=dark&#038;v=2\" title=\"Nick Walker's Doctoral Dissertation Part 2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"202px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/autistic-small-talk\/2742229\">Nick Walker&#8217;s Doctoral Dissertation Part 2<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1\">Show Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Nick Walker\u2019s doctoral dissertation<\/strong><\/strong><br><br>Walker, Nick (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/neuroqueer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Nick_Walker_Dissertation.pdf\">Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration.<\/a> [Doctoral Dissertaion, California Institute of Integral Studies].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Nick Walker\u2019s writings<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/neuroqueer.com\/\">neuroqueer.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Murmurations<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V4f_1_r80RY?si=6fl9VCIUnFiuPIYT\">Beautiful footage<\/a> by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janvanijken.com\"> Jan van IJken<\/a> of starling flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince and Vanessa dash through part 2 of their discussion of Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration by Nick Walker. This includes stories of Nick Walker&#8217;s experiences with Aikido, how he came to start training, how it changed his embodiment, and how his Autistic traits benefitted not only him but his students. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autisticsmalltalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}