I think I am very lucky to have been connected to Sol Smith. He is a professor, author, neurodistinct self-advocate, neurodiversity consultant, with multiple advanced degrees. At the same time he is down to earth and a great conversationalist that is easy to talk with and listen to.

His newest book is AUTISTIC'S GUIDE TO SELF-DISCOVERY, sub-titled FLOURISHING AS A NEURODIVERGENT ADULT (Linked to Amazon)

Sit back and enjoy our wandering conversation as two autistics circle around the topic of neurodiversity and being neurodistinct.

Learn more about or contact Sol at https://www.professorsol.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sol-smith-mfa-eds-ms-cas-7955364/

This podcast is major overdue. I did the interview with Gena Sims in June of 2023. It has been hiding in my podcast folder for me to edit and publish it. Gena had an internet connection that was unstable so there was a massive amount of editing as we would back up and redo from a good start point each time the connection froze. Between me trying to deal with being spread thin, what is turning out to be an issue with medications as my bodies processing of them slows down as I am getting older, and the seeming overwhelming editing job I had this episode on hold.

Gena is fascinating to talk with and is doing amazing things to help the autism community. It all started with an autistic sister and getting out graduating with a degree in theater and music just before the pandemic hit. In Gena's always upbeat style she found a way to turn it all into an amazing effort to help the autistic community and many autistic individuals. Check out her efforts or even better give Autism Theater Project a donation at:

https://autismtheaterproject.org/

https://www.youtube.com/c/AutismTheaterProject

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gena-sims-701ba4186

https://www.instagram.com/genasims19

Have my first academic book finally being released. Co-Edited & authored with Santoshi Halder of the University of Calcutta & Dave Caudel of Vanderbilt University's Frist Center of Autism and Innovation. Been a long process that we started pre-COVID with the pandemic causing multiple delays.

The part of recruiting contributors and editing seemed straight forward but when I learned my chapter needed to be at least 8000 words it became daunting. But when it was all done my chapter came in just over 9000 words if I remember correctly. Thanks to Dr Dave Caudel for his insightful help in his feedback end editing comments for my chapter. And major kudos to Dr Halder for her persistence to see this project through from her initial concept to final publication.

In this episode I took the text of my chapter and put it into Google's NotebookLM This product is amazing at condensing information and giving you different ways to review its variations. Build in is the ability to generate a briefing document, FAQ, test guide, and timeline. But the one I find most amazing is it can create a podcast dialogue audio with the simple push of a button. This episode is the 22 minute podcast NotebookLM created wrapped with my standard intro and outro as well as a brief explanation of the book and NotebookLM.

Sit back and enjoy the amazing technology we have now to make information more approachable by those with various learning styles.

Details on the book at:

https://www.routledge.com/Inclusion-and-Autism-Neurodiverse-Autistic-First-Person-Accounts/Halder-Goldstein-Caudel/p/book/9781032906959