Abbey Romeo
Appearances
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, and I don't talk to that person anymore.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yes, fans do.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
In dog language.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, you're saying change the memory to help me overcome my fears of dogs barking.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
As a kid, I felt left out in the cold. I felt isolated and alone. And I used to identify with Ariel. She wanted to be where the people were, just like how I wanted to be, where the typical kids were.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Very happy. Successful. I mean, accepted for who I am.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
does clementine bark sometimes only when someone comes in oh how do you feel about that it's not as bad as it was okay you know what else you know what speaking of other auditory issues i went to joshua tree there were two roosters crowing at four in the morning oh gosh while i was asleep i could hear a rooster crowing in the middle of the night we used to live in hawaii and we would hear roosters crow all the time because for whatever reason especially if i'm asleep a rooster crowing
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
You could hear it even when you were sleeping.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, there were so many chickens in Hawaii. And you see the kids just carrying them around in their hands. Yeah.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
As a kid, I felt left out in the cold. I felt isolated and alone. And I used to identify with Ariel.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Well, their crowing is just annoying, especially when I'm sleeping.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Really? The dial-up modem sound is how the internet first started. How'd you find that? Because when I was three years old, I had a big Apple iMac G3. And whenever I'd go on the internet, I remember hearing that sound when I was like two and a half.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Wow. No way.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It's the memory of my old computer. I remember hearing it on the old computer when I was like... Three years old.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
because ariel was a mermaid living in a world alone under the sea she wanted to be where the people were just like how i wanted to be where the typical kids were and when ariel finally became human she couldn't talk that's how i felt wow that really is that's why mermaids and ariel are still even important to me today wow and your hair clip kind of reminds me of ariel too yeah did you do that on purpose
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It's kind of a little bit annoying, but to me the static part sounds like the ocean waves. Sounds like the ocean.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Or it sounds like a waterfall.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
The static part sounds like a waterfall.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Or some of it sounds like a guitar string. Okay, cool. And do you remember AOL? No, I never had AOL. Don't you have an AOL email, Abby?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Starfish hair clip.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah. What does she say? You want things for moms? I got 20. But who cares? Who cares?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I want more. That's so fun. I met the real Ariel at the Grove. No way. I think two years ago.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Jodi Benson.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yes.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Can you please stop patting me like this? You can pat me.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Are you okay? Yeah. Do you need a sensory break? No, no, no. I'm good. Okay.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Finish my questions.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
My favorite date is that when we saw The Lion King on Broadway together.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
And we went to Africa together. And we went to Disneyland or Universal Studios.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
We go places like we go bowling, we go to Castle Park.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Huh? Do you like to bowl? I do.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Where did you go bowling?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Bolero?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I don't know. You don't know who wins? Sometimes me or David. Oh, we just take turns? Yeah, we just take turns winning. Are you competitive?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I really want to win a game because when I was younger, when I didn't win a game, I would get very upset. But what's changed?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
No, not necessarily. I can get upset, but not like I used to.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Because I'm blaming it on autism.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, whenever I would win a game, I would sing a song I like.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, and my mom says you can't cry over a silly game because it reminds me of I was acting like a kid and I don't want to be like a kid at all.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I dressed up as Ariel for Halloween this year.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
But it's sized for women like me.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
No, he dressed up as the shark.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It's on the list of his favorites.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
But he has a whole list.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It's too much. I want to try and make a long story short.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Oh, yeah. Well, think about it. James Earl Jones just died. Aw. That's very sad. It was his time.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
The circle of life. He was also Darth Vader in Star Wars.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I didn't know that. He was. He was the voice of Mufasa. And Darth Vader. Yep. Wow. I didn't know that.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
He's a voice actor, but he's also been in a million movies. And her client knows. He was one of my mom's friend's clients. Yes.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
When you go on dates with David, does your mom go too or his mom? Not really, but we did go to Toronto, Canada. Okay.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
We spoke at a conference and Debbie David's mother came. And then we took a plane from Toronto, Canada to Indianapolis. Wow, you travel a lot. And you know what? What? Also, when we were leaving Indianapolis, there was two babies sitting in front of us. No way.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I don't want anything. I just want to stick with animals, and that's it. That's fair.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Trained wild animals run in the backyard. Nice. In L.A. ? Wow. And you know what David does to tell me when I hear a baby crying? Ignore it, Abby. Just ignore it. Oh, does he have sounds that bother him, too? No, he just wants me to be... He doesn't want me to get dysregulated. Oh, that's really sweet. Like, and she says, don't call the crying babies names. Oh.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Like, sometimes I call them names I don't like. Oh. It's a frustration when she can't get out the fact that it's hurting her, so... And I associate kids and adults to the couple song lyrics from a song I did when I was in elementary school.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Like I did something called a visual dictionary. Like my therapist Ryan does AI, artificial intelligence, and she came up with a visual dictionary of crying babies eating vegetables and spicy foods, foods I don't like.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
And you know what? She drew a picture of a visual dictionary of adult women eating.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
That's very cool. He thinks each number is a color. That's why synesthesia made him very smart in math.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Because that's why he got high grades in math.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
The way my mind works, categories and memories come first before any words or emotions do. So right now I'm in a gestalt language brain and memory therapy. And I'm learning how the three parts of the brain, the smart brain, the emotional brain, and the survival brain. Wow. And my five senses too.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, something like that. I'll have to ask him.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Think about it. For example, I'd say that adult women are mermaids and crying babies are the sea witch. Because why? Because I don't like the sound of crying babies and I don't like the sound of Ursula's doing her evil laugh.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
You know what the crying babies sound like to me? What?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Have you seen Oz the Great and Powerful, the prequel? We actually haven't. Mila Kunis was in it from Family Guy. Oh, I like her. Maybe she voiced Meg from Family Guy.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Oh, do we like The Simpsons? Speaking of The Simpsons, I'm obsessed with the scene in The Simpsons movie of Bart Simpson skateboarding naked. And he has no clothes on and he skateboards to Krusty Burger. And there's this guy eating french fries. And he says, boys, before we eat, don't forget to thank the Lord for this bountiful. And then Bart goes. And then he says something inappropriate.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, I wrote it with my friend Casey Kelly, my cousin's college roommate. No way. Helped me with it.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Out of your awareness.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Why don't you ask them? Can I talk about being startled? Of course. And you know what? Speaking of whenever I would get startled, I'd do a certain gesture. What was that gesture? I would do a certain gesture. I would clap my hands and stick out my tongue and I shouldn't do it on the podcast. I'm not going to do it. It's something called the dolly dance.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Not necessarily. I mean, she has a different job.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
And when people did it back to me, they were trying to show me how it looked.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I don't know. Why don't you ask? Have you heard of the book A Bad Case of Stripes? Oh, I love that book. Do you remember Camilla Creams, the main character? She loves lima beans, but she never ate them because the other kids in her class didn't like them, so she wanted to fit in. She felt isolated and alone. So she pretended she didn't like lima beans, and she turned all striped.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
You're right. And then when she was at school doing they did the pledge, she turned red, white, and blue. Yes. Did you read this book?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
No, it's kind of the opposite though. Doctors came to examine her and they gave her pills and once she took a pill she turned into a big pill. Yes. She wasn't being her true self. Well, tell the moral of the story. There was this girl, she wasn't being her true self.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
There was an elderly woman that gave her lima beans and she went back to herself. And she learned that she loved lima beans. To be her true self.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
And also, there's this other book called When Sophie Gets Angry. Really, really angry. Oh. I haven't read that one. That's a book about a girl that falls over a truck because she didn't want to share her stuffed gorilla with her sister. And she got very angry and she blew off steam. She ran into the wilderness in nature and she started crying and then she found herself out in nature. Wow.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
And then what? She calmed and relaxed, and she headed back home.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Do you like to read? I love that book. Do you remember the book No David? No.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
David, that's enough. He had a lot of food in his mouth. And what if your brother David did that?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I really love doing those things. And you love David.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I'm going to take some cookies for the airplane ride. Take as much as you want. Where are the crackers that Addie left me?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Because there's cheese with it. Well, I didn't see any crackers in the boxes.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Costco pizza and yum yum donuts. Costco pizza and yum yum donuts. That sounds yummy, doesn't it? That's what's going to be on the menu.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yum yum donuts for sure.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
What do you think, Abs? The actual marriage itself, because I've always, always wanted to be old enough to get married. I've always wanted to be old enough to get married. Can I tell them the example of how jealous I was of couples when I was a kid?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yes, and in the remake, Prince Eric had a song.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, and in the remake, they took out the song Daughters of Triton, which pissed me off. It's not in the new one.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It's pretty good, but it's different than the original one. Yeah. We loved it. You went to the premiere, remember? Yeah, I got to go to the premiere like two years ago.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
You wake up. Do you wake up early? I wake up. It depends on my schedule. I do a brain and memory therapy. Then I go on my date with David. Then I warm up my voice. And maybe I walk my dog. Knit hats. That's my daily routine.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
The type of autism I have is where you have autism communication disorder. I had 22 years of speech therapy and 15 years of occupational therapy to get where I am today to be able to talk just like this.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Remember? How many hats did I sell? I sold over like 100 hats this past November, December. She did? What?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
By you? Oh my goodness. Yeah. Every single one. You hand make these hats?
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It all started out when I was in a...
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
work program called textiles at my school miller because the teacher was retiring the next year and so my mom asked the school if i could take advanced weaving she went to the principal but he said no we don't allow that here so miss carol my textiles teacher came to the house every saturday to volunteer to help me make hats on a circular and show her how to do it wow you're a great learner too yep i am that kind of reminds me of a book have you ever read caps for sale
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
What's a peddler?
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Peddler. Peddler.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
No way. I started singing when I was two years old. When I turned three, I did something called music therapy with a woman named Casey. She'd come in with a guitar. She'd play the guitar, and I can remember a note.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I was in a play called The Miracle Project when I was in junior high for people on the spectrum.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It feels amazing.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I do.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Satisfied and productive. I mean productive, not productive.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
That's even a real word.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Kelly Clarkson, I used to love listening to your music growing up. Do you know any of her songs? Since You've Been Gone is a good one.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah, I'm going to do it tonight and tomorrow evening.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Brent? Yeah, and you know what? But that wasn't your class. Yeah.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Can we just call it a day? Yeah, let's call it a day. We can wrap it up if you want. Yeah, we can wrap it up. But it was so nice. I love being on your podcast. You're so kind. Thank you so much. Thank you, Abby.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
I know.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
It's amazing.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah. And I feel more, I don't feel as autistic as I did as a kid, but I'm still on the spectrum.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Because I knew my brain would do what I was telling it to do.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah. And that's why I used to I felt like a mermaid because mermaids couldn't talk.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
The first day they came and filmed, I filmed in my room with me sitting still and I was completely zoned out and I had a hard time focusing. So luckily, another day they came back and they finally get to let me walk around so I could focus better. No way.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Yeah. It was in some ways, but I didn't care about being on Love on the Spectrum.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Why did I have a meltdown when the bell went off?
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
He was amazing.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Oh, yeah.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
Well, I did care. Because I never knew I was going to be on TV until now.
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Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
You have a dog, too. Clementine, right?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Love on the Spectrum: Why Abbey Romeo wants to get married
What's Clementine doing today? She's back at my house and Ben's there with his little puppy Navi. She's an Australian Shepherd.