Dr. Ashley Ruba's Candid Reflections on Life with Autism and ADHD

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Send us a text Have you ever wondered what it's like to view the world through a neurodiverse lens? Dr. Ashley Ruba, a developmental psychologist, peels back the curtain on her life with autism and ADHD, offering a rare glimpse into the delicate tightrope walk of managing the need for structure against the quest for new experiences. Through her eyes, we navigate the nuanced interplay of social dynamics, the pursuit of academic excellence, and the personal strategies that m...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.
0:07.0	Broadcasting from Music City, USA. Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.5	Join us as our guests tell us their stories.
0:21.6	Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry. Real life people who
0:28.2	will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.
0:35.0	Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,
0:39.0	and a better understanding for autism around the World. Today's guest is Dr Ashley
0:57.4	Ruba. She earned her PhD in developmental psychology. For over a decade, she studied how young children learn about other people's emotions
1:06.8	in order to design programs that improve children's social skills.
1:11.4	She just recently found that she was diagnosed with both autism and ADHD.
1:16.8	She's got a tremendous story and I'm just happy to have her.
1:20.0	Welcome to the show. Oh yeah, thank you. It's my pleasure. So I understand that you help a lot of people with
1:26.7	PhDs and some of them are autistic as well. So can you expand on that some?
1:41.0	I guess like I inadvertently, but I'm actually like I am, well I recently was diagnosed with autism about three months ago. I'm actually like an engineer at a medical device company but I got my
1:45.1	PhD in developmental psychology studying social and emotional development. So it was very like
1:50.1	once I started putting the pieces together for myself,
1:52.8	I was like, how did I miss this?
1:56.7	So I guess my first question would be
2:00.5	what led you to get diagnosed or led you to you to get diagnosed or or led you to believe you might be
2:05.6	autistic? Yeah I mean that's a good question I so I have like a pretty big
2:11.0	following on Twitter but also on LinkedIn and I think I just I'd
2:14.5	seen a couple of people posting about having an ADHD which I was also
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