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let's get started. Welcome, Dr. Wendler, to the Autism-A-D Podcast.

I'm so excited to be here.

I am so excited that you are here.

So I'm going to introduce you real quick.

Dr. Wendler is a best-selling author, nationally recognized keynote speaker, and a proud

autistic self-advocate. Dan taught himself social skills as a way of

overcoming the social challenges of his Asperger's diagnosis and founded Improve Your Social Skills.com

to help others achieve social success too. He went on to write two books and speak at TEDx twice and become a clinical psychologist.

Today he uses his autistic insight in psychological training to help create a world where everyone can find a place to be along.

I love that.

So we are going to dive right in about your personal experience

and how you've used that experience to support others. But first, we are going to dive into

chapter one, which is elementary school and middle school for you. So when did you start noticing that something was different for you,

that you might be different than some of your other kids in your class?

So I truthfully don't remember a time in which I wasn't aware of that.

I'm sure that there was some little toddler Daniel just toddling around, wasn't aware of that. I'm sure that there was some little toddler Daniel

just toddling around, wasn't aware of those things. But, you know, as, you know, when I start to

be able to pull back to my memories now of like myself in elementary school, I was always

kind of aware that like I didn't, I didn't have the abilities of the other kids. Like there

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