You are listening to episode 63, a mother's message, autism acceptance as an autistic adult.

Welcome to this episode. In honor of autism acceptance, I had released four episodes today. I wanted to gain a perspective about autism from many different people. So on this episode I am

welcoming Lori. Lori is an adult who was diagnosed with autism later in life and we're going to be

discussing her experience with the

diagnoses and what it's meant for her life. Thank you so much for joining me

today Lori. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

I'm really glad that we're connecting because I had asked on my Instagram if

anyone would be willing to come on. I take care of a lot of autistic children

but I have never really talked to an autistic adult and that is something that was

really lacking in my education and acceptance of autism.

So I'm really glad that you were able to come on.

So I really appreciate you taking the time today.

Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.

I do want to make sure that I say that, you know, I don't speak for all autistic people, all autistic adults, and you know, the autism community is a super vibrant community and I was diagnosed three and a half years ago so it's all

sort of new to me too but I'm also really enthusiastic about it and I'm excited to talk

about it because it is who I am and so yeah I'm just

excited to get to share that. And that's a great point because you know part of

this is that we can't get the perspective of every single autistic adult right so I really

appreciate you saying that because I even talked about that on my YouTube video like

where everyone is different every neuro a typical neuro-typical person is different every neuro,

a typical neuro typical person is different.

So this is just a perspective of one person

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