The Neurodivergent Connection / The Curious Storyteller

Hollie Beth Clauser is a passionate advocate for individuals with autism and a dedicated Applied Behavior Analysis (Aba) professional. With nearly 20 years of experience in the field, Hollie has made it her mission to help Aba practices improve staff retention and support clients in navigating their careers. As a person on the autism spectrum herself, Hollie brings a unique perspective to her work...

Meet Shea Belsky, a passionate advocate for neurodiverse job seekers and the CTO of Mentra. Through his own experience with autism, Shea has developed a deep understanding of the challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals in the job market. He has co-created a hiring platform that prioritizes the specific needs and talents of each candidate, leading to successful job placements and lasting emp...

Carrin Gilmore, an experienced autistic educator and advocate, has dedicated her life to promoting inclusivity in the workforce and school systems. Diagnosed with autism at a young age, Carrin has firsthand experience navigating the challenges faced by neurodiverse individuals. With her work at Disability Voices United and her involvement with the neurodive team at Mind Your Autistic Brain, Carrin...

Welcome back to another episode, where I talk with Danny. He is a 28yr old podcaster like me who is also Autistic.  Danny is part Korean and part Jewish. Danny talks about, what why his mom wouldnt accept that he had Autsim, and also talks about after he lost him mom, that his dad married a Jewish women. He mentions when he was in 6th grade it was when he got tested. It talk to him about where the...

Welcome to the show. In todays episode I talk with Michelle Markman about everything from bullying to inclusivity to finding your inner child and being happy again. In this day an age, as we grow older we let go of our youngerself as we enter the world. We forget what it is like to have fun again. We get frowned on when we play a game we like, because were older. Were told people our age shouldn't...

In this episode of Inside the Aspergers Studio I talk with Jimmy Clare of Crazy Fitness Guy Podcast. We talk about how he dealt with being bullies and what got him into eating right. We talk about he is doing in college and how he deals with his Autsim. We find out when he was diagnosed and how he says it was grade 3 and his mom says it was grade 3.  We talk about what made him start his company C...

Hello, Are you on the spectrum and having trouble finding friends or keeping a relationship long enough to be happy. Well my next guest Jeremy and Ilana are Friendship and Dating Coaches, who have helped thousands find friends or find that certain someone and maintain a solid relationship. We talk about what they think the problem is with those of us on the spectrum when it comes making friends. J...

Do you have ASD or ADHD or both? Do you need help fighting distractions and keeping yourself on schedule, and keeping you away from all those distractions.  Well my next guest from all the way down under Jeremy Nagel has developed an app called Focusbear.io which does all that. In this show we talk about his life, how he went from one relationship to another and not being understood, till he met h...

Hello, Are you someone who has a disability and living at home or on your own. but cant find a community of like mined people. Well my next guest Paula Manion and her husband did just that. She saw a need for those who have a disability who needed affordable living space and wanted to be part of a community and created Our Stomping Ground. Our Stomping Ground right now is the Virgina \ DC area and...

Hello have you every wonder what it is like to find love, especially if you are someone who is on the spectrum. Well my guest did just that. You may not recognize his name but if you are a fan of the show Love on the Spectrum, you will know the name David Isaacman. He was one of the cast member of Love on the spectrum.  In this show I talk with him and his sister Alison about what it was like bein...

In this episode of Inside the Aspergers Studio I talk with John LaMantia of the law firm Wais, Vogelstein, Forman, Koch & Norman.   They deal individuals and families who are victims of birth injuries from medical negligence. Their clients deal with permanent cognitive and developmental disabilities, I will ask him do some of his clients think that these injuries cause their child to have Auti...

In this episode of Inside the Aspergers Studio, I talk with Ginny Conroy who is the founder and CEO of Social Grace I talk with Ginny about herself and how she got into working with and helping those with ASD.  I talk to her about how she came up with the name Social Graces. She also talks about her dad and her 3 brothers and how they were one of the reasons she got into helping those with ASD. We...

In my next episode, I talk with Amy O'keeffe who is from Ireland and going for her Archaeology PhD from Trinity College. We talk about what it was like for her to be diagnosed late in life as recent as this February with not only ASD and ADHD but also Fibromyalgia.  We talk about how she deals with her ADHD during her studies, and what challenges she has faced knowing what she has.  She talks abou...

Hello, Do you have ADHD and or knows someone who does, and do you live you Israel. Well my next guest is a ADHD specialist and helps those who have ADHD.  My next guest is Avigail Gimpel is a mother of six all of which have ADHD of some degree, not only that she also works with kids who have ADHD and even ASD as well.  She has also written a book called HyperHealing: The Empowered Parent’s Complet...

Do you know someone who has troubles with social skills and  cant find the right book and person to help them well my next guest Kirt Manecke has written a book called Smile and Succeed for teens.  A book that teachs social skills and made it simple to read. We talk about his book,  We talk about the social skills he teaches and why his book is popular with those with ASD, we talked about the chal...

Are you someone who lives in Canada who has a child who is on the spectrum and looking for help. Well my next guest is  Priya Tronsgard who lives in Canada, and is mom of two children of two on the spectrum. She has also foudned a tutoring agency called Edify Learnign Spaces. They are Canada’s leading tutoring agency for neurodivergant kids she is also a author of a book called Radically Reframing...

In this episode, I talk with Lauren Bacon Smith who is the Chief People Officer of Enabled Intelligence. Enabled Intelligence is a new start-up company in DC that has a integrated work force and a different way interview their prospectus employees.  They have the standard application, but they look beyond the resume or your background. What they are more interested in, is you knowledge and backgro...

In this episode I talk with child psychologist Dr. Shoshana Levin Fox about how she diagnoses and treats children with ASD differently than do most practitioners. We discuss the methods she uses to assess children, such as DIRFloortime, and some unique terms, such as Islets of Normalcy, derived from her work of 25 years at the Feuerstein Institute in Jerusalem. In her view, many children today are...

In this Halloween Edition of the show I talk with my good friend Jose known my JD every where on social media who is also Autistic .We talk about his issues with Autism everything from losing his job to losing his college scholarship. We talk about the ups and downs of Autism and what parents can do if thier child has Autism. This is also a short episode but very informitive. Sit back, Relax and G...

In this episode of Stories, I have a chat with new ASD Life Coach Pol Klein. I talk to about how he got into coaching. I ask him questions like where does he see the world in 5 years from now to what his favorite subject was in school.  Also in this episode at the very end I try something new, I do a word association with him and see what words pop into his head.  Pol is a very interesting man wit...

In this this Episode I talk with Tim Goldstein .  Tim is not your ordinary person, Tim was diagnosed with ASD late in life which has helped answer a lot of questions.  Tim has even gone to vocal coach to help him lower his voice. In this episode Tim also talks about why the term Neurodivergent is almost a negative word when we could be using something that sounds better like Neurodistinct. Tim has...

In this episode of Inside the Aspergers Studio. I talk with Ryan Litchfield.  He is a PCM Admistrative Assistant and also someone who likes to help those who have ASD as well. In this epiosde Ryan talks about what it was like being diagnosed with ASD and where he sees his life headed and what he would like to do with is life. This turned out to be a very interesting episode. Hosted on Ausha. See a...

In this episode, I talk with Melissa Schiefelbein who is a board certified Behavior Analyst.  We talk about why she deiced to become a behavior analyst working with ABA.  She talks about how she quit her job to help her son, who is on the spectrum and started out as non-verbal and now he is talking and doing great in school. We talk about why people are so fearful of ABA and what can be done to ta...

In this episode of Inside the Asperers Studio, I talk with Raquel we learn that Switzerland is very segregrated and we talk about her life dealing with Autism and why she moved to Switzerland and dealing with segregartion when it comes to school and son.  She talk about the first time she heard what ableism is how the school system is not letting her home school her son. She talks about moving bac...

Welcome to a new episode of Inside the Aspergers Studio. In this episode I talk with Beth Felsen, who is a ASD Transition Coach who helps those with ASD transition to Adulthood or even finding work to transitioning to college. In the beginning we talk about her and how get into coaching and says it was her daughter, because he daughter is on the spectrum.  Than we get into her work and the differn...