Gifted Unleashed, Episode 54
What happens when the behaviors we interpret as attitude are actually communication?
What happens when a person who seems difficult, aloof, overly sensitive, intense, or socially awkward is simply experiencing the world differently?
Those questions are at the heart of the latest episode of Gifted Unleashed, where host Nadja Cereghetti sits down with Felicia M. L. Davis and Nancy Wainscott, co-authors of Autism, Not Attitude: Embracing Neurodivergence at Work and in Relationships.
A Conversation About What Happens Behind the Behavior
In Episode 54, Autism, Not Attitude, Felicia and Nancy explore the often-missed realities of adult neurodivergence—particularly the experiences of women who may spend years masking, adapting, and being misunderstood before recognizing that their brains simply work differently.
The conversation brings together two perspectives that rarely appear side by side:
- Felicia’s lived experience as an autistic business leader diagnosed as an adult.
- Nancy’s clinical experience after more than 30 years working with neurodivergent individuals and families.
Together, they offer what Felicia describes as a “peek behind the curtain”—a look at the internal experience that can sit behind behaviors other people see from the outside.
And that distinction matters.
A person who doesn’t make eye contact may not be disengaged.
A person who asks endless questions may not be difficult.
A person who becomes overwhelmed may not be overreacting.
A person who communicates very directly may not be rude.
Sometimes, the behavior isn’t the problem. The interpretation is.
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Autism, Not Attitude explores neurodivergence across the places where misunderstanding can have the greatest consequences:
Work. Relationships. Family. Communication. Self-understanding.
Different minds don’t need to be fixed.
They need to be understood.
And sometimes, changing the way we understand someone changes everything.
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