On the Spectrum: Stories about being neurodivergent
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, both our storytellers share their experience with the autism spectrum. This episode is in honor of World Autism Awareness Day, April 2, which hopes to further people’s understanding and acceptance of autistic people.
Part 1: Neuroscientist B. Blair Braden is confused as to why her neighbour doesn’t pick up on any of her social cues.
Part 2: For her entire life Behavioral Neuroscientist Susan Rapley doesn’t understand why she can’t fit in.
B. Blair Braden received her doctorate in Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology from Arizona State University (ASU). She completed her Neuroimaging/Neuropsychologoy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. She is an Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Science and Director of the Autism and Brain Aging Laboratory at ASU.
Susan has a PhD in Psychological Neuroscience, then applied it to community science education and engagement. Throw in a healthy interest in leadership for social change, mix over maternity leave, then pour into disability equity for the NZ public service. Susan is currently advising in the establishment of NZ's new Ministry of Disabled People. Storytelling turns out to be at the heart of it all.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm your host, Mishayayevsky, and this week's episode is in honor of World Autism Awareness Day, which is on April 2nd. |
| 0:42.3 | It's all about furthering people's understanding and acceptance of autistic people. So today, both our storytellers are sharing stories about their experience with the autism spectrum. |
| 0:48.3 | Our first story is from B. Blair Braden. Her story was shared pre-pandemic at a sponsored show for Spectrum News at |
| 0:54.8 | Sainte-Fie and Montreal, Canada. It was such an honor producing this show, along with Ari Daniel, |
| 1:00.9 | and getting to travel to Montreal to host it back in the before times was an absolute dream. |
| 1:07.9 | Although I did forget my hairbrush on that trip trip and it took me a solid hour to get all |
| 1:12.4 | the tangles out when I got home. Anyway, here's Blair's story. |
| 1:26.9 | This guy again, here I am in the sweltering heat, just trying to carry my groceries |
| 1:34.3 | from the car into my girlfriend Candace's house in one load. |
| 1:39.3 | September may be the time that the rest of the country is cooling off, but for us in Phoenix, the heat is still oppressive. |
| 1:47.0 | And what's distracting me from my serious grocery carrying mission is Candace's annoying neighbor, Peter. |
| 1:56.0 | Hey there, he says as he starts marching over to the driveway to talk to us. We didn't ask him to come over, |
| 2:03.3 | but this is what Peter always did. It was like he sat in his window, waiting, watching for our car |
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