Beschikbare afleveringen

• Introducing: The Loudest Girl in the World

  The Loudest Girl in the World is a new podcast that tells the story of Lauren Ober's journey to understand what the hell it means to be on the autism spectrum and how to live life as a newly diagnosed autistic person. It's about finding...

  30 aug 2022 192 sec.

• 1 - Talking: A Love Story

  Lauren loves to talk. She’ll talk to anyone — baristas, postal carriers, neighborhood dog walkers. But her talking is more than just idle chit chat — it’s a kind of compulsion that’s gotten her in a lot of trouble over her life....

  13 sep 2022 1780 sec.

• 2 - Goodbye, Routine; Hello, Meltdown!

  The pandemic upended nearly everyone’s lives. It caused people to reevaluate their jobs, their relationships, their lives. For Lauren, the pandemic meant a collapse of her daily routine. When the day-to-day fell apart, so did Lauren....

  13 sep 2022 1978 sec.

• 3 - Little Robots and Casual Rockers

  If you want to get evaluated for autism, you have to take some tests. But the earliest autism evaluations suggested that autistic kids were like little robots who wore the same clothes every day and looked through people like they were...

  20 sep 2022 1862 sec.

• 4 - Hannah Gadsby Is My Bestie

  So Lauren finally got her autism diagnosis. But what the hell did that even mean? Where is the neurodiversity roadmap for someone diagnosed in their 40s? Turns out, there isn’t one. So Lauren has to make it up on her own. It’s time to...

  27 sep 2022 2197 sec.

• 5 - Let's Talk About Hard Things

  It’s no fun being autistic all by yourself. If you feel comfortable, you have to tell folks and let them into your truth. So it’s disclosure time for Lauren. It’s time to tell her pals this wild new thing she’s learned about herself....

  4 okt 2022 2607 sec.

• 6 - Autism Pleasantville or: A Ridiculous Journey Into A Neurodivergent Fantasia

  This autism stuff is hard. So Lauren needs a break. And she gets it on a trip to Autism Pleasantville — a perfect world made just for her and all her quirks and weirdnesses. Autism Pleasantville is place full of cute dogs and...

  11 okt 2022 1498 sec.

• 7 - Will You Be My Autistic Friend?

  It’s really hard to be a newly diagnosed autistic person and not know any autistic people. So it’s time for Lauren to make some autistic friends. But it’s not as easy as you might think. Which is why Lauren has to call up some big guns...

  18 okt 2022 2259 sec.

• 8 - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¿ Lauren comes out to family? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  Coming out to family is hard. And Lauren should know — she’s already done it once. But if Lauren wants to fully inhabit her autism, she’s going to have to let all the people into her reality. So it’s time for Lauren to pull up her big...

  25 okt 2022 2265 sec.

• 9 - I Love You, Sweetheart

  At some point in any journey of self-discovery, you just have to start living. And that’s what Lauren needs to do. But before she can get on with it, she has to make peace — with herself and with others. She needs to allow herself to be...

  1 nov 2022 2684 sec.

• The almost-lost art of Susan Te Kahurangi King

  Nonverbal since the age of 7, Susan Te Kahurangi King is an autistic artist whose drawings have been featured in museums all around the world. Lauren speaks with Susan’s sister Petita Cole about Susan’s journey from prolific, unknown...

  15 nov 2022 2291 sec.

• Chelsea Wolfe, your everyday trans autistic BMX Olympian

  Chelsea Wolfe is a BMX freestyle rider and the first trans athlete to represent Team USA at the Olympics. She talks with Lauren about getting diagnosed with autism as a transgender woman, how autism helped her become a world-class...

  22 nov 2022 2199 sec.