Mm-hmm

... would suspect that also with lawyers who are often deep thinkers and very careful thinkers, that can be a challenge.

And I work on systems.

I design systems, and I was looking at this going, "I can't keep doing this, and I'm also not gonna be successful if I do." So I turned it into a problem to solve, and I realized that if I had an agenda, that was incredibly helpful.

If I knew the goals for the meeting, that was incredibly helpful.

If there were notes, that was incredibly helpful.

And so when I didn't have that, I would approach the person who was leading the meeting, and actually what I would do if I was a lawyer, I would frame it around billable hours, and I would say, "Hey, look, I wanna protect billable hours.

Um, well, you were diagnosed later in life, so what would you, you know, advise someone listening right now going like, "Wow, this kind of sounds like me," or, "I do struggle with meetings and things like that"? I guess, what would you say is the thought process of deciding to get diagnosed or learning more about yourself?

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Hi, my name is Natalie Diggins, and I'm the author of the Autistic Adults Toolbox, and today we're going to do something really, really special.

A couple of months ago, I emailed the Autistic Woman, and I said I had a suggestion, a guest suggestion for her show, and she said, And it was her.

I couldn't think of anybody more interesting, more thoughtful.

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So she has very generously allowed me to interview her.

And I also sometimes will avoid situations where someone might ask me what I do with my time.