Adam & Thora introduce the show and tell their origin stories. Enjoy!

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Transcript:

Adam:    00:00:08    Hello! And welcome to the Adam show.  

Adam:    00:00:10    It’s not the Adam show. You said it was all about me. You said if I joined you, it would be all about me. Just kidding. Welcome people.  

Thora:    00:00:19    This is Autism On Shift. Uh, today we’re just going to tell you about our show. Uh, introduce ourselves. 

Adam: I’m obviously Adam.

Thora: I’m Thora. We are your hosts. We’re married and we run the show for funsies. 

Adam: We run the show. 

Thora: So the title of the show is Autism On Shift. So we are actually talking to autistic people at work about, yeah, well, not at work, they’re usually not at work when they’re talking to us.  

Adam:    00:00:47    It’s better than being on Facebook. We know you people out there.  

Thora:    00:00:51    Me. I’m on Facebook.

Adam: At work? 

Thora: Oh no! 

Adam: Well. Don’t listen…. Dave 

Thora: So basically we talk to autistic people about their jobs, what they do for work. What is fun about it? Um, and how being autistic, uh, makes a difference at work.  

Adam:    00:01:13    Yep. Hence “on shift”. Also on shift is sort of the wordplay, you know, where we want to change the perspective that, uh, anybody can do anything. There’s a staggering statistic that  

Thora:    00:01:29    84% of autistic adults are unemployed or underemployed.  

Adam:    00:01:35    Right. And so we want to, uh, we want to change the employer’s idea of what people can do. We want to, um, on a lot of the, uh, sites you go on, people are always asking, uh,  

Thora:    00:01:47    Yeah, what do you do for work? What can I do? What am I capable of? And it’s a, it’s a huge conversation in the autistic community.  

Adam:    00:01:53    Right. So we thought we’d talked to some people and, and just put it out there and, and, and answer those questions  

Thora:    00:01:59    And make a shift in that social conversation, uh, you know, about what, uh, autistic people are capable of. So that’s why we’re here. 

Adam: So we’re witty. 

Thora: I don’t know about all that. 

Adam: I’m sure we are. 

Thora: Uh, so I’m Thora T H O R A Thora like the thunder god, but within an A. 

Adam: The A is for Adam. 

Thora: So my story is, I was late diagnosed. I was diagnosed almost two years ago at age 42. And I’m sure, like many of you, it had me kind of looking back at my life and understanding more things.  

Adam:    00:02:43    I’m not so weird.  

Thora:    00:02:46    Yeah. Well, I am weird of course I’m weird.

Adam: That’s what I like about ya. 

Thora: But that, there’s a reason for it as opposed to just, um, 

Adam: So