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Lauren Ober is "The Loudest Girl In The World"
The Takeaway
English - November 14, 2022 17:00 - 10 minutes - 9.64 MB - ★★★★ - 711 ratingsDaily News News Politics news politics radio national takeaway wnyc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 44 children in the U.S. has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder. And almost 5-and-a-half million adults in the U.S. have autism. And the average age of an autism diagnosis comes at about 4 years and 4 months.
But that's not the case for everyone.
We speak with Lauren Ober, radio producer and host of The Big Listen from WAMU and NPR, who discovered that she is autistic at the age of 42, and chronicles it in her new podcast, The Loudest Girl in the World.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 44 children in the U.S. has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder. And almost 5-and-a-half million adults in the U.S. have autism. And the average age of an autism diagnosis comes at about 4 years and 4 months.
But that's not the case for everyone.
We speak with Lauren Ober, radio producer and host of The Big Listen from WAMU and NPR, who discovered that she is autistic at the age of 42, and chronicles it in her new podcast, The Loudest Girl in the World.