At the age of 14, Curtin University<\/a> graduate <\/a>Jacinta Reynolds<\/a> was diagnosed with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome, a form of autism spectrum disorder. Today, Jacinta is passionate about advocating and helping other neurodivergent people reach for the stars as a Neurodiversity and Inclusion Cultivator at idoba<\/a>. Written by Alumni & Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jacinta Reynolds, a Curtin University graduate, defied expectations. Diagnosed with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome at 14, she was told she\u2019d never attend university. Yet, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":21136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","wds_primary_category":710,"footnotes":""},"categories":[710],"tags":[724,709],"class_list":["post-21134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-after-curtin","tag-life-advice","tag-linkedin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24894,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134\/revisions\/24894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Despite being told that she would never go to university, Jacinta graduated from Curtin in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics and specializing in Astrophysics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/1702428006729-1000x960.png\")
Jacinta shares her advice on becoming better allies for our neurodiverse colleagues in the workplace and beyond.\ud83d\udc9b
Read Jacinta\u2019s article here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n