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I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Anya Graham and Coffee.

Hi everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Today we are talking with Morgan Harper Nichols,

artist writer, speaker, musician, and honestly one of my favorite human beings on the planet.

Hi Morgan, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm so honored that we

get to chat. It's been a long time. Yeah, it was actually really hard for me to hit record because

I just wanted to hang out with you and talk all the time. Yes. Okay, so what are your

rose, but in Thorn right now? Yes, so it is this past weekend. I got a, had a pretty big life

moment. I got diagnosed with autism officially. It has been something that has been on my,

a part of my life, my whole life, but didn't have language for it and I finally, I'm saying all this

because it's kind of both the rosebud and Thorn. It's the rosebud is like a breath of fresh air

and exhale of just like, oh, wait a second, there's actually an explanation as to why things have

been difficult in my life, even just everyday things. And the biggest rosebud that I'm just holding

onto is just the specialist that I was working with just looked at me and said, you know, here's

what's going on and it's not your fault. And I just, I cried and I felt like the tears that I

was crying was just something I had been holding in for so long. I put so much pressure on myself

to overextend myself and perform at a level that was very hard for me. So yeah, the Thorn I would

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