Hey, what's up everybody. Drew here from the anxious truth. I am joined today by a special guest, my friend Krista Holman, Holman, Holman, Holman, that's right, I'm sorry. Krista, I found on Instagram at where she is more popularly known as the neurodivergent

rebel, which is like one of the greatest Instagram handles ever.

And Krista is not only living the life of somebody on that autism spectrum,

and you can correct me if I use wrong terminology, I would be okay with that

because I'd like you to educate us a little bit. And you've been at this since 2016. Why don't you give us an idea what you guys get going on?

Yeah.

So I was diagnosed, autistic. I was 29 so I went almost 30 years of my life having no idea I was autistic.

But that being said, you always know something is different because you kind of go about your life being scolded for being a contrarian despite that never being your intent.

You know, when you're missed, people don't know you're, you know, thinking in a different way, and so they just assume you're being difficult all the time.

And when I was, when I finally found out, it was kind of like somebody gave me this like rulebook for my life like an instruction manual. It's like this aha moment that really

It set me on a new path that really helped me start taking care of myself in a more autistic

friendly way because I had just been pushing myself and running myself

into the ground trying to keep up with non-autistic standards because I just thought I was

a failed non-autistic person, you know, because I couldn't do things that were easy for other people, despite, you know, at the same time being able to do some really complex things that people struggle with easily, you know, it's like, it's two-sided coin, but it's like you really really

fix it's like it's two-sided coin, but it's like you really fixate on like what the little things that you suck at

unfortunately because you know

unfortunately you know with anxiety I'm sure you talk about here on this podcast, like those

mistakes are under a magnifying glass and you see them like they kind of ruminate on those sometimes.

And so you kind of got myself into a frustrated spot before I was diagnosed.

So that diagnosis kind of course corrected me in a much more positive and constructive direction that I needed to get myself on track.

Yeah, and which has led to this mission that you got going on online.

And I was saying before we started recording that you actually introduced me to the term neurod divergence which I had never heard before

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