Navigating Autism, Healing, and Hope

Everything is the Best

Dear Media, Pia Baroncini

Pia, Everything, Best, Media, Society & Culture, Baroncini, Dear, Education

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This solo episode has been a long time coming, and I’m so grateful you’re here for it. I’m opening up about the journey we’ve been on with Carmela—sharing what it’s like navigating an autism diagnosis, the hard truths, the small wins, and why I’m more hopeful than ever. From functional medicine and light therapy to the emotional rollercoaster of parenting and advocating, I wanted to speak honestly about what’s helped, what hasn’t, and how I’ve learned to trust my gut through it all. I also answer some of your thoughtful questions about perfectionism, PCOS, manifestation, and how to embrace the chaos of your 20s. I hope this conversation brings understanding, compassion, and maybe a little inspiration.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:15.8	This is wave overdue.
0:18.7	I'm supposed to be doing, I'm not supposed to do anything. I would like to be doing
0:23.2	solos like every third episode. But, you know, our schedule is really full. And I often record these
0:36.5	at night. This is during the day.
0:38.0	I have 45 minutes until I have a call.
0:41.2	Even like last night I was going to record something and then it just, the day gets, you know, then it's like, you know, then I got to do kids stuff.
0:49.5	And then it just gets so tired and I get in bed with Davina and we're so defeated in like a good way.
0:55.8	We're depleted from a full day and I'm like, I can't be the present person that I want to be.
1:02.9	So you're getting me at 11 a.m. during the week post-Macha. So I'm ready and available for you. I could give a, I'm going to start by giving
1:15.4	an update on this stuff that we're going through with Carmela. And I want to give context here
1:20.9	because what to share and how to share it. Like if I share a lot of this, I know I'm going to
1:26.9	get people being like, why is she making this her whole personality? She said she didn't want to share her. Like, if I share a lot of this, I know I'm going to get people being like,
1:27.6	why is she making this her whole personality? She said she didn't want to share her.
1:31.2	But what I will tell you is what you don't see is the exorbitant amount of private messages
1:38.7	that I get all the time. And what I think is the most important about autism, first and foremost, is
1:48.9	it's one in 19 people in California. So if you aren't directly affected by autism, these are your peers.
2:09.0	And so the more that you know as a, you know, it just is better for everybody because there's a lot of empathy that we need, period, like just in general,
2:15.4	because we're just like mean and combative. But I definitely think that
2:19.7	the more that you know as somebody who is neurotypical and is not affected by it, then you can
2:26.5	speak to people appropriately or maybe have a little bit more empathy. If you're in a grocery
2:31.7	store and you see somebody acting a certain way that you think is
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