Paige Layle, BUT EVERYONE FEELS THIS WAY: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle joins Zibby to discuss her deeply personal memoir, BUT EVERYONE FEELS THIS WAY: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life. Paige describes what it was like to struggle with masking her emotions and navigating social interactions throughout her childhood and what it was like to finally receive a diagnosis as a teenager. She also discusses the complexities of family dynamics and the misunderstandings that can arise between neurotypical parents and autistic children. She expresses the importance of understanding neurodiversity and autism as a spectrum and touches on the advocacy work she is passionate about.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibby Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.7 | Paige Lale is the author of, but everyone feels this way, how an autism diagnosis saved my life. |
| 0:37.3 | Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of 15, Paige is an advocate and influencer |
| 0:41.8 | for a better understanding of autism on social media. Page began making videos in response |
| 0:46.9 | to a degrading post about autistic people, initially creating a four-part series to address |
| 0:51.5 | common misperceptions about autism. Now in her 20s, Paige is an |
| 0:55.3 | autism acceptance activist on YouTube and TikTok. Page also works part-time as a dance teacher |
| 1:01.6 | and shares her home in Cawortha Lakes Canada with her dogs, Macy and Medusa and Kat Mikado. |
| 1:07.0 | She narrated the audible original American girl by Wendy Walker, an instant number one |
| 1:12.1 | audible bestseller, which, oh my gosh, I did not realize and forgot to even ask her about, but I adore |
| 1:16.8 | Wendy Walker, who has been on this podcast many times, including for American Girl. Welcome, Paige. Thank you |
| 1:23.4 | so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books, to discuss, but everyone feels this way, how an autism diagnosis saved my life. Thank you for having me. I'm so |
| 1:33.2 | pumped. Thank you for giving it a read. I did. I read it, all of it. I loved it. I thought |
| 1:40.4 | I learned so much about so many things, but the way you wrote about autism actually |
| 1:47.4 | is writing about understanding human beings at all. I mean, it's applicable to so much stuff. |
| 1:53.5 | And just like the memoir parts of your life. And I thought it was really great, the mix of information and story and your mom, it feels like there could be a movie. I don't know. I thought it was... |
| 2:07.1 | Oh, thank you so much. No, yeah, there's a lot going on in there for sure. |
| 2:12.3 | So why don't you tell listeners about the book? Yeah, sure. Well, I started writing the book, but everyone feels this way. |
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