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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital space together.

Charlotte, my dear Instagram friend, Charlotte, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Do you want to quickly introduce yourself?

Oh, yes.

Hello, Sarah.

And my name is Charlotte. And I am also known as The Spectrum Girl on Instagram because I'm autistic.

So that means that's why I chose the name the Spectrum girl

because I'm on the spectrum, as simple as that. Yeah. Yeah, that was the quick introduction.

I love it. No, because now we're going to get into the, we're going to get into so much more.

I'm curious because I don't think I've ever heard your story on what it was like

to get diagnosed. I've only, and I'll be honest, like, things have changed so much in the last

five years around social awareness with autism, our perceptions of autism, and even some of the

language and what it means to be on the spectrum. So do you want to kind of walk

me through when you got diagnosed and how you kind of got to the place of even being diagnosed

if you knew something was up, if you always kind of felt it, if it happened at a young age or an

older age, I would just love to kind of start there. I'm going to try to be as quick as possible.

You too, take your time.

Summing it all up.

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