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Podcast: Mother's Guide Through Autism
Episode: The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How To Grow Up Awesome and Autistic with Siena Castellon
Description: Send us Fan MailIn this week’s insightful and enlightening episode, Brigitte interviews Siena, an 18-year-old multi-award-winning neurodiversity advocate, bestselling author, and UN Young Leader for the SDGs, to talk about bullying and how to grow up awesome and autistic.Siena recalls being different at a young age and how she struggled to make friends. She was constantly bullied and had to change schools 11 times over the course of her secondary school career. She was beaten with sticks, shoved in lockers, held out a window, called robotic, cold, freaky, weird, and psycho in every sc...