Abby Romeo
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Podcast Appearances
That's how my mind works.
Oh, wow.
Yes.
That's so interesting.
So when she saw the format of the flashbacks, she was able to really tell me as a mother, when you're always trying to figure out what's going on on the inside, she said, this is how my mind works.
It was one of the biggest autism parenting moments I've had.
And I just wanted people that dealing with this thing called the Gestalt language processor, which is a part of some with autism, that's a little bit underserved and under discovered.
It really gave me pause to push and talk about this more because the show so beautifully shows life the way many of us think, but for a person with autism was to really access real feelings.
And she always knew Sterling.
She always knew that somehow as she got older, she always gravitated towards adults because adults are more patient.
They're less, you know what I mean?
Yeah, of course.
Level of social acumen.
And so, but as a child, she would always say, I can't wait to be an adult.
Because she knew her brain would be able to work the way she wanted it to.
I don't know how she had this understanding, but that is in fact exactly what has happened.
Yes, indeed I am.
Yes, I feel that on all different levels, there are things going on universally and cosmically and things that I cannot understand in my little human mind that are bigger than what I know.
And I believe all of it.
Oh, of course.