The Loudest Girl in the World
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Adrianne Lenker on songwriting, sadness, and paintbrush guitar
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adrianne Lenker is the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated band Big Thief and an acclaimed solo artist. Listening to her song “anything” was a tur...
Katherine May's walk with autism
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine May is a bestselling author who writes of coming to terms with her Asperger’s diagnosis in her memoir The Electricity of Every Living Thin...
Ladyhawke is afraid of puke
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pip Brown, the artist known as Ladyhawke, is an award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She also wrote all the original music for t...
Chelsea Wolfe, your everyday trans autistic BMX Olympian
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsea Wolfe is a BMX freestyle rider and the first trans athlete to represent Team USA at the Olympics. She talks with Lauren about getting diagnose...
The almost-lost art of Susan Te Kahurangi King
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nonverbal since the age of 7, Susan Te Kahurangi King is an autistic artist whose drawings have been featured in museums all around the world. Lauren ...
9 - I Love You, Sweetheart
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At some point in any journey of self-discovery, you just have to start living. And that’s what Lauren needs to do. But before she can get on with it...
8 - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¿ Lauren comes out to family? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coming out to family is hard. And Lauren should know — she’s already done it once. But if Lauren wants to fully inhabit her autism, she’s going ...
7 - Will You Be My Autistic Friend?
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s really hard to be a newly diagnosed autistic person and not know any autistic people. So it’s time for Lauren to make some autistic friends. ...
6 - Autism Pleasantville or: A Ridiculous Journey Into A Neurodivergent Fantasia
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This autism stuff is hard. So Lauren needs a break. And she gets it on a trip to Autism Pleasantville — a perfect world made just for her and all he...
5 - Let's Talk About Hard Things
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no fun being autistic all by yourself. If you feel comfortable, you have to tell folks and let them into your truth. So it’s disclosure time ...
4 - Hannah Gadsby Is My Bestie
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So Lauren finally got her autism diagnosis. But what the hell did that even mean? Where is the neurodiversity roadmap for someone diagnosed in their 4...
3 - Little Robots and Casual Rockers
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to get evaluated for autism, you have to take some tests. But the earliest autism evaluations suggested that autistic kids were like littl...
2 - Goodbye, Routine; Hello, Meltdown!
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic upended nearly everyone’s lives. It caused people to reevaluate their jobs, their relationships, their lives. For Lauren, the pandemic ...
1 - Talking: A Love Story
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren loves to talk. She’ll talk to anyone — baristas, postal carriers, neighborhood dog walkers. But her talking is more than just idle chit cha...
Introducing: The Loudest Girl in the World
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Loudest Girl in the World is a new podcast that tells the story of Lauren Ober's journey to understand what the hell it means to be on the autism ...