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And so what do we do now? Tell me a little bit more about how podcasting came in to fill this need and how that led to the network.

Well, I think podcasting is a naturally, it's sort of set up for autistic culture.

So it has a lot of the components that neurodivergent people need to be successful and creates a space where a lot is possible.

Just as the art form, like if you think about theater or filmmaking, like filmmaking is, I would say, probably the worst thing for a neurodivergent person.

Not writing a film, not film criticism, but actually making a film.

Producing,

yes, on set.

days and all of that.

No,

no space for monotropic focus because we literally have to get this shot right now.

Oh, you're in burnout now? Oh, well, this cost us $10,000 per minute.

Right.

Get it together.

And, you know, have you just tried suffering? Like, it's literally the worst thing I can imagine.

And podcasting, Even if you're doing like an audio doc, like an audio documentary, podcasting is meant to be created and distributed asynchronously.

I think there are two things autistic people need to be successful.

One is working in your monotropic focus.

Whatever that is.

If it's trains, maybe it's being a train conductor.

I don't know.

But for me, it's talking about the stuff I'm most interested in.

Yeah.

Right? So that's number one.

Number two is being able to do that when you're in flow, when you're in like an attention tunnel.

And so podcasting is set up perfectly for that.