Sol Smith: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery

Summary

In this episode, Sol Smith discusses his journey as a late-diagnosed autistic adult and shares insights from his book, 'The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery.' He emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and provides tools for neurodivergent individuals to live authentically and effectively. The conversation aims to challenge common mischaracterizations of autism and promote understanding rather than masking one's true self.

Key takeaways

• 1Sol Smith's personal journey as a late-diagnosed autistic
• 2His book titled 'The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery'
• 3The significance of self-acceptance for neurodivergent individuals
• 4The negative impacts of trying to change or mask one's identity
• 5Insights from his nearly two decades of experience as a college professor
• 6The creation of NeuroSpicyCommunity.com for adult autistics

Source

Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. Hey, how you doing. Welcome to Destiny. This is Cliff, your host of the podcast, and I hope you're doing well today. Sad news. Eric van Dankin has passed away at ninety. I didn't realize that he was ninety. I thought it was in his late eighties. But if you don't know who he is, he wrote a number of books on aliens influencing ancient Earth, and the most notable book was Charants of the God, which was written in nineteen published in nineteen sixty eight, and I got to say it was a big influence on me. Not so much for the alien part of it, but he actually, out of his own pocket and resources, would fly to different parts of the world and look at ruins, and because the archaeological community was in his infancy back then in the early nineteen sixties and beyond, he would actually go to Peru, to various Mayan sights and Aztec sites in Mexico and Central America and actually go and travel through the jungle. He would take an interpreter with him and a small team and he was taking and you can see these in some of his early books. He was taking photographs of temples and pyramids back when it was not even really vogue to do that, and you know, and I was just fascinated as a kid to see these photographs and all these images that he was impressed with. Now it was late that he interpreted this data as alien cities and pyramids, and later would kind of go off the deep end and even consider the Great Giza Pyramids, Cufu, Caffrey, and so on as works of alien technology. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Jan 14, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.