Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each episode is like a digital journal entry detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment.

I talk about my journey with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development, and more.

So join me every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first time and you are still in the beginning of your personal story.

These are the first words I'm saying today, actually.

Just realized went to say hi, hello, welcome back to the Prolog's podcast and realized I haven't

spoken out loud yet today. Good morning. Welcome back to the Prologs podcast. Today is my

second attempt for recording this episode because a tragedy befell me yesterday. I've recorded this

episode. It's a dialogue's episode. I was going through y'all's questions. I was on fire. I wasn't

even stuttering. I was on a roll. Words were flowing. I sounded great. I looked down towards the end of recording,

and my microphone hadn't been fully hooked up to my laptop the entire time. And I didn't even

try to do it again. I just closed my laptop and I said the universe said it wasn't in my journey

today. Okay? And I did something else. So we're back for round two. I have not uploaded a prologues

episode in two weeks. So I thought I'd give you a little

explanation. You guys knew that I wasn't going to upload one two weeks ago because I posted on the

Instagram. That's because I had all these thoughts and I had these like deep pressing feelings that I

wanted to share with you guys. But instead of coming out on the podcast, they came out in a substack post. And if you

want to go read that, it's on my substack. It's about how I am starting to suspect that I might

have autism. Maybe that means I'm not bipolar. I have always felt very connected to my bipolar

diagnosis. But in women, bipolar, OCD, ADHD, and autism are often misdiagnosis each other

and often show up together

in the same person. They can present comorbidly. So I'm starting to feel like in my mid to late 20s

that bipolar and OCD maybe don't cover every single aspect of what my experience is. And if you want to

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