Come Meet Drayden

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Drayden is a Black boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder. His mother, Dana, has been consistently fighting and pushing to get him the diagnosis and services he deserves (and needs!) since he was just a few months old. This episode is one about racism within the medical field. It's about a mother who must protect her son from the people who are supposed to protect him in a world where innocent, sweet, adorable Black boys grow up to be perceived by many as dangerous Black men. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate Kennedy and I'm the host of a long-form millennialsite guest in pop culture podcast called Be There In Five.
0:06.3	When we think of pop culture, our minds often automatically go to entertainment-related news.
0:11.3	But what about the culture of our day-to-day existence, the trends and elements of collective consciousness that easily get lost in the rapid news cycle?
0:18.6	Be There In Five is designed to examine these pockets of the zeitgeist, both current and nostalgic,
0:24.2	whether investigating the intentions of self-help gurus and tiktok therapists and the MLMs that pop up on our feed, stay in and day out,
0:30.8	or doing nostalgic deep dives about things like hot girl sense at a 2000s bath and body works.
0:35.1	cucumber melon obviously.
0:36.8	Recently we revisited the soundtracks we curated on Burned CDs as baby pirates when line wire was still a thing
0:42.0	on an episode called Women's Buff Ridge.
0:43.8	And this week you can tune in to Be There In Five for a series about the bridesmaid industrial complex called 27 Stresses,
0:48.9	which crowdsources listener stories about the joy and misery of being in bridal parties,
0:52.2	inching toward financial ruin with every inch of alterations you're forced to pay for.
0:56.0	Buy me wherever you get your podcasts.
0:57.9	I'll be there in five.
0:59.1	I swear.
1:01.4	I'm Nora McNerney, and it's going to be okay, which is hard for me to say let alone believe because I am depressed.
1:09.9	But on the advice of my therapist, I am searching for one okay thing about every day and bringing it to you.
1:16.8	It's going to be okay is a new daily podcast filled with okay things from me, my friends, and from you.
1:23.6	Find it's going to be okay wherever you get your podcasts.
1:34.0	I'm Nora McNerney, and this is Terrible Thanks for Asking.
1:38.1	People ask often how to get on the show.
1:47.8	What to do if they have a story to tell and like every question there are many answers officially.
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