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started. Welcome, Dr. Tara Regan. Hey, Holly. So great to be back for the third time.

I'm so excited you're here, one of my very favorite people to interview.

So only you and Dr. Temple Granite have been on three times on the Autism, ADHD podcast.

So you are in good company.

I'm going to introduce you really quick. So Dr.

Regan is the executive director and founder of autism grown up, an online nonprofit creating

autism resources for across the lifespan. She's a sibling to two autistic adult brothers

and has been working in the autism community for over a decade

through a variety of professional roles from the direct care to research in schools.

Whether in the online community or working within the Resource Center at AGU, her goal is to facilitate

the free flow of ideas, information, and inspiration between stakeholders

to support the autism community growing up, which is so great. Again, I'm thrilled that you're

here today, and we're talking about siblings. And siblings aren't often, you don't share much

about them, you know, and all the information and the groups and everything.

So we know it's important, though, because we hear from parents that siblings are struggling.

And sometimes, you know, siblings are also differently wired.

Yeah, there's definitely an increase.

Yeah, this part's like the most research part is like there's an increase in

likelihood of having another neurodivergent sibling after one. Exactly. And so there are a lot of

variables that we need to consider when we're discussing siblings. And again, siblings might be

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