Hello and welcome to Unfiltered. My name is Oli Dugmore and my guest today is a stand-up comedian.

Raised in a, nothing town that you pass through on the train from Edinburgh to Glasgow,

and those are her words, by her 30s she'd found success as a stand-up,

making regular TV appearances. But, away from the public eye, she was searching for answers.

Artists to why she had never quite fitted in. Her taught herself Danish at eight years old,

and habitually destroyed all the furniture in her flat. Her new book, Strong Female Character,

details this search, and her eventual diagnosis with autism. 20 years after she first suggested,

she may have it to doctors, age 16. Fun Brady, welcome to Unfiltered. How's Tricks?

Listen, I don't speak Danish, I just was interested in learning foreign languages,

so I've not got a superpower, because that's a big method about autism,

or, yeah, we've got special skills. Well, my superpowers, no one wants me at their

weddings or birthday parties. Is that a special skill? I guess so. I have a little bit of experience

with that, but that's I think that much because I drink a bit too much. I hate drinking,

I'm actually very uptight about alcohol. Oh, yeah. I think it's one of the most dangerous drugs

out there. I think so. I think in particularly as well, in relation to the way we think about

drugs in our society, the ones that are illegal, we conceive of them as being these deeply dangerous and

things that are to the detriment of society, and you look things like alcohol and cigarettes,

which are both legalised, regulated. The damage they do to us is pretty extraordinary. I think

we're going to get into this a little bit, because we'll see how we go, but reading your book,

there's, you talk about Xanax, you talk about, Ritalin, and I read in a piece in the time as well

about cannabis, so maybe if we have a bit of time. Oh, yeah. We can talk about self-medicating.

I think we're close to being legal in this country, and it's the obstinacy around it is

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