Rachel Winder: Weaving the Bonds of Neurodiversity - A Mother and Son's Enlightening Odyssey through Autism and ADHD

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Tony Mantor

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Send us a text Every family has its own unique tapestry of experiences, but for Rachel Winder, the threads of her life weaved a particularly intricate pattern. As an autistic mother raising an autistic child, she faces the world with a perspective that's as enlightening as it is challenging. Step into Rachel's shoes for a moment and you'll begin to understand the depth of neurodiversity's impact on identity, advocacy, and the unbreakable bond she shares with her son. Toge...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.
0:07.0	Broadcasting from Music City, USA. Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.0	Join us as our guests tell us their stories. Some will make your laugh, some will make you cry. Real life people who
0:27.9	will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.
0:35.0	Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,
0:39.2	and a better understanding for autism around the World. Today's guest is Rachel Winter.
0:57.0	She's autistic and has a son this autistic. Her story is fascinating.
1:02.0	Thanks for coming on. No, thank you for allowing me this space basically. I'm sorry sometimes I'm if I'm a bit nervous I talk very quickly and then sometimes I can't find my words and sometimes I'm like, oh my God, I sounded like really boring.
1:13.0	No need to be nervous here.
1:15.0	You're definitely not boring.
1:16.0	And you've got a great story.
1:18.0	I understand you have an autistic child, is that correct?
1:21.0	Yeah, yeah, so I'm autistic, ADHD. I have the full she bang and my son
1:25.9	who's 10 he's basically like a carbon copy of me but obviously not me he has his own character.
1:31.5	He and I discovered our identities.
1:34.4	He was four, I was 39, but when we actually received our official medical model diagnosis,
1:41.2	I was 40 and he was five.5. So having spent 40 plus years of my life because I'm now 45, not knowing who I am, why I'm different, thinking that I was broken, but it's just amazing to have like giving birth to an autistic ADHD like me who
1:57.5	can share the same, not saying, but similar experiences and share that insight and have that connection that I felt I didn't have growing up.
2:06.4	What led you to get diagnosed at a later age?
2:08.9	I didn't think I was autistic or ADHD.
2:11.9	I had the kind of the sort of societal idea of what
2:15.8	autism was, well wasn't as it turns out to be and so thought well I can't be
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