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Speaker 1: Hey there. My name is Lauren ober and I'm a

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Speaker 1: journalist and a podcast host. You might know me from

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Speaker 1: some of my work. Lovely, I'm Lauren ober And from

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Speaker 1: American Public Media. This is a spectacular failure. I'm Lauren

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Speaker 1: ober And from WAMU and NPR. This is the big Listen.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not just a worker. I'm also a loud talker,

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Speaker 1: a dog owner, and a Pittsburgher, among other descriptors that

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Speaker 1: end in er oh. And as of late twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: I am also officially autistic, which came as a surprise

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Speaker 1: because I don't fit into a lot of the stereotypes

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Speaker 1: about autism or what I thought I knew about autism

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Speaker 1: before I found out I was autistic. But on my

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Speaker 1: new show, The Loudest Girl in the World, we leave

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Speaker 1: the autistic tropes behind and experienced neurodiversity in a way

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Speaker 1: it's never and portrayed before. And I know that because

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Speaker 1: it's all about me. I used to play a game

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Speaker 1: with Lauren. I would say, what we have to stop

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Speaker 1: talking about. I'm going to walk you through my own

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Speaker 1: experience from the time my sixth grade teacher put me

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Speaker 1: in a cardboard box to shut me up to the

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Speaker 1: time I melted down as an adult over a caper

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Speaker 1: in my soup, to my decision at forty two to

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Speaker 1: finally get evaluated for autism. Since this show is all

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Speaker 1: about the journey of self discovery, you're going to be

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Speaker 1: right there with me. You'll tag along as I take

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Speaker 1: a battery of autism tests. This is truly bullshit. It's

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Speaker 1: literally hurting my brain right now. And you'll be in

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Speaker 1: the room when I awkwardly tell a group of friends

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Speaker 1: about my diagnosis. Oh, I recorded this is that okay,

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Speaker 1: and you'll sit with me during the dark times. But

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Speaker 1: befair warrant, the dark times are really dark. You got

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Speaker 1: this shower and just like immediately started Craig Paula rocking

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Speaker 1: back and forth, griding, griding, gride. But it's not all

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Speaker 1: saddo stuff. We're going to make a lot of autistic friends.

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Speaker 1: I want to know, will you be my autistic friend?

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Speaker 1: I would love to be your autistic friend. Yes, Build

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Speaker 1: autistic Worlds, welcome passengers to Air Autismia flight F eighty

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Speaker 1: four point zero non stop to Autismbergtown, del Borow, and

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Speaker 1: generally have some solid laughs along the way. Who knew

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Speaker 1: the depth of emotion that could be triggered by the

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Speaker 1: mere caper. The Loudest Girl in the World dropped September thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe and listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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Speaker 1: any place fine podcasts are available. It'll be fun, maybe,