ADHD as a Superpower, Late Autism, and Escaping the Corporate Box | Adulting with Autism

Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Auntie April on Adulting with Autism for a conversation about getting an autism and ADHD diagnosis at 64, and what a lifetime looks like in hindsight once it finally has a name.

Topics: the scattershot work pattern, growing up in a violent household he calls Crazy Land, being the best technician in the building and the worst at office politics, using photography to climb out of painful shyness, and the decision at 54 to walk away from a six-figure job and start over as a ghostwriter.

Adulting with Autism is hosted by Auntie April, MS, OT/L, an autistic occupational therapist who breaks down real life skills, relationships, work, mental health, and independence for autistic adults. The show pairs lived experience with a clinician’s practical lens.

Richard Lowe is The Writing King, a professional ghostwriter and author who has written 113+ books under his own name and ghostwritten 54+ more for clients.

Before writing full time he spent 33 years in enterprise IT, including two decades as Director of Computer Operations at Trader Joe’s.

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Full transcript of the conversation follows. Advertising breaks have been removed.

April: Hey, squad. It’s April, your autistic host of Adulting with Autism. If you’ve ever felt like nobody actually teaches autistic adults how to live independently, manage life, mental health, or figure shit out, as a young adult, you’re not alone. This is where we break down real life skills, relationships, work, mental health, and independence in a way that actually makes sense. So go ahead, grab your drinks of choice.

Absolutely no judgment. And let’s get to it, shall we? Richard, welcome to Adulting with Autism.

Who is Richard Lowe and how did he go from IT to ghostwriting?

Richard: Thank you. It’s nice to be here.

April: Okay. For all my listeners out there who are new to you, tell them who you are.

Richard: Well, my name is Richard Lowe. I worked in the tech industry for 33 years. I was the director of IT at Trader Joe’s. For most, yeah, I managed a good portion of the IT department, the part that wasn’t stores. I was a VP of two companies before that, VP of consulting.

And I put in the part of the water system for Las Vegas Valley, New Haven, Connecticut, and Ojai, California. Then one day, 2013, I said, I’m done with corporate. So I packed up my bags, moved to Florida, and started my new career, whatever that was going to be. First, I started looking for a job, but it turns out that there’s a lot of ageism out there.

Couldn’t do it. I mean, I could find jobs, but they would be, you know, not good jobs. So I started doing various gig kind of things. And then I met started doing LinkedIn branding that was for a little while, and then ran into a ghostwriter and did some ghostwriting for him for, you know, about a year and wrote three books for a thousand dollars each, whole books.

Now I realized I was being grossly underpaid. That was like a penny a word or something. So I, I confronted him and he said, well, you know, you can leave if you want, but nobody’s going to hire you because you’re new and all this. And just gaslighted the heck out of me. So I silently in my mind gave him a little finger and walked out.

And the next day, literally the next day I had $25,000 worth of business from two clients. And since then, I’ve managed to, for now the last 13, 14 years, managed to build quite a nice ghostwriting business.

April: Now, you are late diagnosed autistic and 80 years.

What does it feel like to be diagnosed autistic and ADHD at 64?

Richard: Yes, I am.

April: So what did it feel like to receive that diagnosis?

What is a scattershot ADHD work pattern?

Richard: Well, I’m 65 now, and I got the diagnosis at 64, so it was really recent. And I just went, oh yeah, that makes sense. That explains a lot. The only thing that shocked me was I’d never figured it out before. It just never occurred to me that that was something that could be me.

But I read through all of the materials and looked at it and, you know, same as any ADHD, I’m sure, hyper-focused on it for a while, figured it all out, went to AI and asked it all about it. Then said, you know what? I am going to take advantage of being autistic. And that’s what I started doing.

April: So you described ADHD pattern as nothing, nothing, nothing, then everything all at once, which that’s what, that pretty much sums it up.

Richard: Well, I call it scattershot where like right now I have a to-do list that’s 113 long. And yeah, I mean, it’s huge. I fully don’t intend to get to it all today, but it’s stuff that I plan to do. I’ll just sit down and I’ll just become hyper, I mean, literally focus.

I’ll get up at four in the morning and I’ll just work through the items on the list and I’ll look up and it’s midnight. Like, what the hell? My blood sugar’s low and I’m freaking out because I woke up in the dark and I’m going to bed in the dark. And the hyperfocus is something I’ve really found I can use. I can just turn it on.

And the time blindness comes with it, it’s a little uncomfortable. And the worst thing is the face blindness where I I can look at somebody and I just, I’ll have no idea who they are for just a few seconds. Maybe I’ll give you an example of face blindness that I used to walk around the block with a young lady. Pretty cute.

We would talk and talk and talk and talk and talk for years, a couple of years. And then I moved and then a few years later, I’m in a restaurant and this lady comes running up to me, gives me a big hug, you know, brunette. She’s, she’s a little older. She’s, she’s cute. And she says, Richard, and my mind’s going like, who is this person?

I’m not used to getting hugs and by strangers. She says, this is Lexi. Hello. Hello. How you doing? And blah, blah, blah. And she went on and on. Don’t you remember me? Like, I, for the life of me, I have no idea who she was still, but she told me who she was and, and I’ve.

kind of filled in a picture, which may or may not be right, but the face blindness and the stuff that, I don’t know what part of it’s called, but the stuff with, or the memory, if it’s not important, it’s gone forever.

April: Oh yeah.

How does a difficult childhood shape a late-diagnosed autistic adult?

Richard: It’s like, whoop, I don’t remember you, but I’ll play along. I mean, getting hugged by a cute girl. I mean, what am I gonna, you know, I’m not gonna say, go away, go away.

April: Right. So were there any like stories in your childhood that now scream?

Why are office politics harder than the technical work for autistic professionals?

Richard: I wish they wrote a book. And it’s called My Life in Crazy Land. And it’s about me then telling my friend when I was born, I moved out. And what basically the environment that reinforced me being ADHD and autistic. Somewhat abusive, mostly mental, some physical. And I just wrote about all the things that happened. And they’re little things a lot of. They’re not, they’re things that…

a normal person would look at and go, yeah, that’s just stupid. You know, why did that cause such a problem? But it does because it sticks because I’m ADHD. And my parents had me on lithium at the beginning, you know, when I was eight months old. When what? Apparently I was quite a handful. Back then, I guess it was pretty standard.

And I was bouncing off the walls until I learned that dad had anger issues. So when I made noise, or did something that he didn’t like, like anything, because he didn’t like a lot, I would get screamed at, I’d get slapped, the abuse would start. So I learned to have, first thing I learned was books.

If I was reading a book and I was quiet in my little corner reading this book, he left me alone. And the mom left me alone too, because mom was part of it. And then I got into hobbies, same thing. And I learned that by focusing on these things, the, my model railroad kit, my, you know, model tanks and things, my parents would leave me alone.

So I focused like a lot on those hobbies and that those continued up to this day, the hobbies, they were, they were my safe zone. And it was, it was, it was it was fascinating to look back on it and seeing how it went, how it came together.

April: Okay. So now that you’re, you were in IT where you were like, like, I’m really good at this, but this really fucking sucks.

Is ADHD a disability or a strength?

Richard: All the time. I mean, I was super good at the, I mean, I’m super good at the tech. I mean, I write, even though I’m a writer, I still write code and then just whiz it out like this, you know, write my website and books and stuff. To me, books are kind of code. You know, they just come together.

I mean, I’ve written 60 books in the last year. 60, and they’re not small books. Some of them are 100,000 words. Yeah. Just sit down and start writing and Write and write and write and write and write until the body just goes, you’re done. And then get up in the morning after four hours sleep and do it again until the book’s done.

So I’ll write a book in a week and then have to edit it, of course. And I hate that. And then but in IT, the thing that drove me crazy was the office politics. The the social part of it. You have to get along socially with people. I just wanted to get the job done. And I was a manager.

I was a, I mean, I was a leader in this company. And what went along with it was, was introversion. I was horribly introverted. I ain’t incredibly introverted. Oh my God. I, people would not even know I existed because I was introverted.

So one day back then I decided to, after the wife passed away, I decided to handle the grief and handle the introversion in the same thing. So What I decided to do was pick up the camera and start photographing. So first I went to the national parks. I went to all the national parks on the west coast. Photograph, you know, I’m ADHD.

So I mean, I go, I took a hundred thousand pictures, you know, and went on hikes and went all over the place, actually hurt myself on some of the hikes, you know, fell down a cliff, got that kind of thing. Had to be rescued by the guide, got all kinds of stories. And then that book I’m still writing. And then I went to Renaissance Fairs.

And I’ve been to Renaissance fairs before, but I started going to them and started taking pictures of Renaissance fairs. And those were fun. And I became a Renaissance fair person. They called me the Ren fair guy because I was always there. I was taking pictures of everything. I went backstage and oh my God, there’s stuff that happens backstage is wow. Yeah. Don’t bring your kids.

And yeah, they won’t allow kids. It was amazing. And I became friends with all these people. And then I ran into the belly dancers. And I was watching a belly dance show from the back corner, the back row with my telephoto lens, photographing the dancers. And I put them online and they would take all the pictures and they’d wait for them to come on.

They were sitting there and waiting. And as soon as all the pictures came on, they would grab them all and put them all over the place. And I let them have them, put my logo on them and said, you know, use them as you wish. And they loved it.

So one day I’m sitting there at the Renaissance Faire photographing these women in a group called Ujam and a lady named Mardavi came up, not Mardavi, sorry, Marjani came up to me and said, and she’s approaching me and I’m thinking, oh my God, she’s short. She’s the leader of the troupe. She’s got piercings and tattoos that she did herself.

Gargoyle on one hand, you know, white gargoyle and a dark gargoyle for good and evil. the bangles and stuff, all the stuff that belly dancers have. And she comes and she sits next to me and she puts her arms around me. Now remember, I’m super shy. And I’m like, Oh my God, who is this lady? Oh my God, I’m gonna die.

‘Cause she has studs in her head and stuff. And she puts her arms around me and she says, We love your photos. I said, Well, thank you. And she said, And you’re a great photographer and we like you. We would like you to always sit in the front row center of every single show. We’re gonna reserve a seat for you.

But we want you to sit in the front row because we’ll tell you that photographers who sit in the back row with their telephoto lens, we think it’s a little creepy. And I said, I can see that. And so after that, she introduced me to every single belly dancer she could. And before long, I was the belly dancer guy.

And I photographed every single belly dance show that I could find in Southern California. And I’ve took by the time I was done with photography, I took almost a million pictures. And yeah, a lot of them were, some half of them were belly dancers. I went to all the shows. Every year I put on a party and I’d have a hundred dancers come. I’m not kidding.

Some of them big names. You know, like the names you’d see on America Got Talent kind of names. And they’d all dance for me and I’d cater it and I’d rent a hall or a bar or something. And first one was a pirate shop. And then I realized, I think my introversion problem is solved.

To the way, just as much as I want it to be, because I’m still introverted, but not so much that it gets in the way. And then My shyness problem. Actually, I’m introverted, but not shy. As you can tell, there’s a difference. Shy is, is having trouble even having this conversation.

Introversion to me is like, I can’t, I getting to this conversation at all because I want to be by myself. So then I did that. And then when I moved to Florida, I gave that all up and, and started writing.

April: Now, for listeners out there who feel like they’re barely holding it together, like what signs might they already have more independence and skills than they realize?

What does a writing process look like with ADHD?

Richard: First of all, the thing to realize is ADHD is not a disability. It is a power. It is a superpower. There are, like I was telling you, I mean, I hyper focus on things. I’ll sit down and I’ll say, okay, I want to do this and I want to finish it tonight. Boom, I am focused on that. Do use it. Use it.

All the other stuff in ADHD, you can in one way or another use to make yourself, give yourself more power. And the thing to do is to stop treating it as a disability and start treating it as a powerful thing. You’re, you got stuff that other people don’t. I mean, I could go through, what are there, like 50 bazillion different symptoms of ADHD?

I don’t know, 50 or 60. Just go through them and one of them will click. Yeah, I focus on things or yeah, you know, I do that. And then There’s workarounds. I have trouble with dates, calendar dates. So I have to keep a calendar. And if it’s not on my calendar, I’m like, you’re lucky that I put you on the calendar. I won’t.

Well, you have a little automatic thing that does it. I won’t show up. I have to have a to do list or it won’t get done. So my to do list tends to get really go expand and contract. I come up with these systems to handle that. I’ll talk to somebody and I won’t remember a word that they said. while they’re saying it.

So while they’re saying it, I’m putting it on a to-do list and calendar and recording it so that I can get it later. So I’ve come up with these systems to take care of some of the… issues with being ADHD and also I’m taking advantage of the powers that ADHD gives me.

April: Now, what does your writing process look like with you having…

Richard: Oh, that’s fascinating. I will say, okay, I want to write a book on the war between, this is one I just finished, the war between Satan and God. I think that’s a fascinating subject. Okay, sounds fascinating to me, you know? So I sat down and started researching it a little bit. And it’s very fascinating.

And I came up with, well, what if, let’s change it a little bit. What if a super powerful, advanced artificial intelligent being went to hell as a soul in hell in Dante’s Inferno. So how did that work out? So he, he, all kinds of shenanigans happen.

And then at the same time, I have this war going on and stuff, and I’m just, it’s just flowing from my fingers. I’m just writing, I didn’t outline this, I didn’t sit down and figure out what it was going to be. I’m just saying, well, what if this? That chapter looks pretty good. It doesn’t really fit with the rest of it. I need to go backwards.

And that’s kind of unique because I just sit down and I just write. Then I have to proofread it, and that’s the yucky part. But AI helps with that. AI is really good with that in that you can take your documents, say, AI, help me proofread this, and it’ll tell you all the problems. Or AI help me with Does this chapter make sense?

And they’ll say, no, this is messed up, this is messed up, this is messed up. Fix this and this and this and this. So you don’t use AI to write. You use it to help you write.

April: Now you say, stop forcing the neurotypical method.

Why should neurodivergent adults stop forcing neurotypical methods?

Richard: Yeah, you drive yourself crazy.

April: What does finding that clique look like in practice for listeners out there that’s like, that sounds like my jam.

Richard: What do you mean finding that clique?

April: Like, how do they find their systems or build around their world instead of just forcing themselves to do it neurotypically?

How do you define executive functioning for a neurodivergent brain?

Richard: Well, I realized, actually it was probably just a couple years ago that I don’t remember dates. That that’s why I keep not doing, I keep missing things is because I don’t remember. Oh yeah, I have to meet, I have to talk to this person for this interview today and I thought, well, what if I use, what if I use technology? What if I use a calendar?

Okay, let’s do that. The only, the only thing I need to do then is remember to put it on the calendar, which I do right away. So that’s the system. Oh, I have trouble with faces.

Well, when they’re on Zoom, take a picture and take their name and put it in a little folder that says, this is this person and start, start keeping little facts that you find. So start using in technology to to help that memory along. Whatever’s missing, you can fill in the blanks. So now, when I look up April on the computer, who’s this April person?

I can look in the folder, it says April, and I got a picture of you, and I got, you know, she’s at the show, got a little text file with notes. I can go look at it. Voila, problem solved. The thing I did have to do is I have to remember I put it there. But you just start to look at, well, where’s the holes?

What’s the thing that’s holding? Like I have had the hole of being shy. So what do you do about shyness? Well, I forced myself out into the world. That may not be right for you. How about going into Toastmasters and start taking speech classes as Toastmasters? That’s a group that teaches teaching, teaches speaking, and get up on stage once in a while.

That terrified me when I first got in there. Oh my God, getting me to speak. I won a nice big award once and they couldn’t get me on stage to accept it. They couldn’t drag me on. They tried. Literally three people were trying to drag me on stage and I wouldn’t, they would not do it. Cause I’m, you know, big guy and hard to drag.

So find your just look at yourself and see, well, and you can even look at it and say, well, what do other people say is my weakness? And then fill in that hole, whatever that happens to be.

April: So how would you define executive functioning in a way that fits neurodivergent adults?

Richard: What do you mean by executive functioning?

April: Like that part of your brain where it can organize everything and put it in a way that fits neurodivergence because we don’t think in like systems like

What are the ADHD Marketer and the ADHD Christian books about?

Richard: You better believe I don’t think like systems. I have this to-do list with hundreds of items on it. Do you think I do it in order? No. Do you think I do it in priority order? No. I just picked the one that looks good. It might be this lowest priority thing on the list, but it got my attention, and I’m going to finish that now.

For executive functions, when I was at Trader Joe’s, I was a leader and I was middle management, and it became kind of an issue. I didn’t know I was ADHD then, so it was an issue. Because when you, it’s the not knowing that’s the problem. It’s the not having the label and then being able to look it up and say, okay, what does this mean?

Find a book on ADHD or something and learn about it. I wouldn’t go to a, I wouldn’t, I’d just find a book or something online or even AI and say, so what is ADHD? What does that mean? What does that mean to me in my life? That’s what I did. I went on AI and said, what does it mean?

And it said, well, it means you got this and this and this and this and this and this. Yeah, that makes sense. One of the worst things that I had to fight, I think it’s called RSV. It’s the one where little things will set you off. Yeah, you’re obviously familiar with it.

And I was like, oh, because somebody will say something dumb and they’re not my friend anymore. They’re gone. I’ve erased them from my life. They’re just gone. I don’t even remember them. And now that I know what that is, okay, that’s just me being ADHD. You can stop that, Richard. Maybe they didn’t really mean that I was a jerk.

Maybe they did, but I could at least have a conversation with them.

April: Okay, so you’ve written books like the ADHD Marketer and the ADHD Christian, which I find fascinating.

Richard: Did you read them?

April: Not yet, but just the titles, I’m like, who does the ADHD Christian? Cause I’ve never seen it. How do you, how should neurodivergent brains approach this? Because That can be so woo.

Why do neurodivergent systems take time to pay off?

Richard: I don’t know what you mean by woo, but I was in a church. I went to church. After many, many, many, many, many years of being away from the church, I went in and it was fun for a while. And then I started not liking it and started having a lot of trouble getting there.

And then I started looking at it from an ADHD viewpoint and I realized, okay, yeah, the ADHD is conflicting. with what’s going on in the church. The social mechanisms are literally driving me crazy. And that’s what the book’s about, is how do you deal with that? And it’s aimed at people who are ADHD, pastors who are setting up their parishioners, talking to their parishioners.

When you’ve got somebody who’s neurodivergent, and I don’t know about the other types of neurodivergence, they just know ADHD, autism is me, you have to, be aware that these people, that I, that people like me are going to, we’re just going to leave if it’s, if it doesn’t fit.

In my case, it was started to talk, they changed the format so that they started talking a lot more about giving money and tithing and things like that. And it was driving me crazy because yeah, I’m there to learn about God. I’m not there to learn about how to give money. And, and it got really heavy.

And then the, the, you’re going to hell stuff hard, really, it’s like, I don’t, I don’t really think I’m going to hell. And that’s something I’ll confront when I get there. But yeah, that’s something my parents told me a lot that I was going to hell. So I had to kind of work through that.

But the ADHD Christian will kind of, its goal was to tell you how to kind of deal with this kind of stuff. So that I, in my case, I could get myself back into the church. And the ADHD marketer is the same thing. Marketing is something, me as an ADHD, I have a lot of trouble with.

April: ‘Cause I’m like, I was zooming out. I’m like, I’m done.

Is it too late to change careers in your fifties or sixties?

Richard: Well, ’cause there’s no immediate, you can’t see the benefit right away. It’s long-term and it’s, you may not ever see the benefit of marketing and sales. especially marketing. Marketing is putting your brand out there and getting people to recognize it. Well, how do you know? How do you know people know? How do you know that they like your logo? You don’t.

I mean, even if they say they do, they’re not lying. Whereas when I write a book, I have a book. I can sell it. Other people can read it.

April: Now, what would you say to someone who feels like it’s too late to change direction because they’ve already invested in their career or a degree or an identity that just doesn’t fit?

What does it mean that everybody is in a box?

Richard: I left a $150,000 a year job when I was 54 to become a ghostwriter. And I left, I hadn’t been a professional writer before. I’d done writing, but I’d never been a professional writer before. I’d never run a business before. I didn’t know how to do any of that.

I had a little money, so I was able to float for a little while, not as long as I would have liked, because it sure was nice to sit there on the couch for a few months vegging, but you can do it because I did it. I did it and I changed careers after I left a few times. I started with doing LinkedIn profiles for a company.

I started doing ghostwriting for a company. I was an affiliate marketer. I sold on eBay. I made $35,000 on eBay. I made $10,000 in affiliate marketer. You know, I did all these different things, but until I finally ran into ghostwriting, it’s, you just, sometimes you just got to bite the bullet and do it, and it was hard.

There’s a lot of fear, a lot of gaslighting from other people. Oh, you’re not going to make it. You’re going to die out there. What are you going to do? Well, you don’t have to worry about it because you’re not going to be in my life anymore because I’m going to be living in Florida and you’re California.

April: So if somebody is stuck in the nothing, nothing, nothing, then everything pattern, what’s one step they can do today?

Richard: This is a book I’m probably going to write pretty soon. Everybody’s in a box.

April: Well, that sounds fabulous.

Richard: And the box is something you create. It’s not something people impose on you. I don’t mean unless you’re in jail or something. It’s generally not something people impose on you. It’s a box that you think you have around you. And all you have to do is get, first of all, start getting out-of-the-box and then eliminate the box. It’s not something you need.

It’s just something you’ve decided you must have. I had this box. that I had to be working in this tech company and get a nine to five and make a paycheck and pay the bills, the American dream, blah, blah, blah. And when I realized that was just the box I was in, I changed direction and said, You know what? I don’t need this box.

I don’t even like this box. It’s kind of an ugly box. I don’t like where I’m working. I don’t like the job. I love the programming and stuff, and I liked a lot of the people, and it wasn’t a horrible place to work, but I didn’t like it. So I left the box. Now I’ve still got a box.

We all do, but it’s a different kind of box and I’m going to break that too. But find your box. If it’s as simple as sign up for Toastmasters and go to a meeting. There’s a Toastmasters in just about every city. It’s a speech. It teaches you to speak and you just go there and you speak. And you don’t have to speak.

You can watch other people speak. You can grade people speaking. That’s fun. You can say, oh, this guy’s a terrible speaker. If you want, you don’t have to. Join a social group. Join an online social group if you have trouble getting outside. Lots of those. Start a gig business. Do something that’s different. Gig business being, you know, sell some stuff on eBay.

Most of us have too much junk. eBay is a great place to get rid of it. Or Facebook marketplace. Make some money.

April: Okay, a final question for you is where can people find you, your books, your ghostwriting work, and your appearances?

Where can you find Richard Lowe and his books?

Richard: You can go to masterofworlds.com. So that’s master of worlds. That’s that’s plural masterofworlds.com. And that has all my books and articles and all kinds of cool stuff. If you go to thewritingking.com, that’s my more of my business site, and it’s all about how to about ghostwriting and how to buy my services. So if you’re a writer, you can go there. Richardloe.com.

I just built that site and it’s going to have articles that are personal, that are not so much my brand. So the three sites go together. So one of those three sites, probably for most of your audience, Master of Worlds is the right one. Go there. You’ll find books, you’ll find short stories, all kinds of stuff. Do leave comments, please. Love comments on there.

Even if whatever kind of comments you want, you know, short ones, long ones not bad ones though. I do, I do moderate them because some people are weird. It’s the internet, right? The internet. Yeah. And you’ll find all my, all the podcasts have been in on there. I think I’ve been in almost 200 now as guests.

And then I’ve run three probably about to start up another one. I know I’m crazy. So you can go to those three places. And I’m thinking of putting myself out on TikTok because that is definitely out of my box.

April: If you are Gen. Z and older, it’s out of everybody’s box because it’s like this whole new world.

Richard: Yeah, well, what I’ve been told and what I’ve seen is a lot of the it’s called BookTok. It’s a subset of TikTok. A lot of them are romance writers and romance books, and I’ve actually written three romance books. So I think I thought I’d try it out. It’s interesting writing a book that’s from the point of view of a woman.

So pretending that I’m a woman writer writing about a woman from a woman’s viewpoint was not easy. I’ve done three of them now. So they’re all on my website. You can find them all master of worlds.com.

April: Richard, thank you so much for coming onto my podcast.

Richard: It’s my pleasure. I know it was kicking and screaming and you had to grab me and say, do it! But I did it. I’m kidding, of course. But it was fun. I enjoyed it. Feel free to ask if you need another one. If you need anything. In fact, if anybody here needs anything, get on my website, leave a comment, send me a message, whatever.

April: Thank you so much. You’re welcome. Here’s the thing, nothing changes unless you take what you heard today and actually apply it. Pick one thing from this episode, just one, that’s all you need, and try it this week. If you want more tools, resources, and real life support, head over to my website, adultingwithautism.com.

Everything is there to help you keep moving forward, and if this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs it. Until next time, guys, keep fierce, keep focused, and keep adulting with autism.

Find Richard Lowe at TheWritingKing.com.

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