Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

So as promised at the end of the last episode on the beauty business, I'm bringing you a mini episode.

It sprang from something that came up at the end of one of my interviews.

And it got me thinking about how many of us

work with certain conditions, physical or otherwise, and how we're experiencing the

workplace differently because of that. I was wrapping up my conversation with Tina Albarino,

and she's the beauty industry consultant in the last show. And I asked her if she'd mind

sending me a photo to use when I published the podcast on the website.

I'd noticed she used a cartoon rather than a photo on Twitter and on her own site.

And she said, sure, that's fine.

I'll send you one.

But it's true I don't usually use a photo on social media.

And it's a stupid reason because when I go to trade shows, like, people who

know me will stop me and I'm so awkward with people, I have Asperger's. So I don't make eye contact.

And so people are always trying to look at what I'm looking at. I know as much about Asperger's as

the next person who doesn't have it. So I thought, hang on, I've just

done a chatty 40-minute interview with someone who has compromised social skills. I told her

she didn't seem like someone who was bad at talking to people. It's not so much that I'm bad

at talking to people. It's that I have a very difficult time maintaining eye contact because I get

distracted. So I have to kind of look away and stare at other things. Which is why she finds those

impromptu approaches so excruciating. And the funny thing is, although she and I did our interview over

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