Twice Exceptional: Teens Exploring and Living with Neurodiversity: Recent Episodes
Cate Dunn
Twice exceptional teen Cate Dunn discusses her experiences living with ADHD and giftedness, interviews guests, and researches the many different forms of neurodiversity. https://twiceexceptional.podbean.com/
Cate talked to Ronnie about his experiences with Tourettes during school, from high school to a PHD. He shares insights about what tics feel like and his passion for studying neuroscience.
In this episode (recorded at the end of September) Cate discusses a little bit about moving into college and the things she learned along the way.
Cate talk with high school senior Rex about dysgraphia and how 504 plans have helped throughout his journey with dysgraphia and ADHD.
Cate interviewed Julie Skolnick, founder of With Understanding Comes Care and author Gifted and Distractible. She talks about 2e kids and adults and strategies for their future.
Cate talks with mother and son Lynn and Jonathan about their book, and how Jonathan’s own experiences influenced their book.
Check out the book! https://robbythetaxi.com
Cate talks to Sara Haberson, a college counselor who used to work in college admissions, about how neurodivergence can affect college applications.
Cate interviews teenagers Jo (who has ADHD) and Cal (who has functional neurological disorder). They discuss friendship and social lives. Part 1
Cate goes on a bit of a tangent about how girls have a harder time getting diagnosed with ADHD due to the expeditions of being a problem child.
Cate interviews Dan and Meli Povenmire, creator and voice actor from Hamster and Gretel, on their ADHD.
Cate talks to Kate Witt about her dyslexia and her choice of career as a Speech Language Pathologist.
To celebrate a year of podcasts, Cate reviews some of her interviews over the past year.
Cate talks to Emas about their experiences with autism as a high schooler, why concerts are terrible, and why My Little Pony helped them make friends.
Cate interviews Dan Schlosser on his experiences with ADHD as an adult who got misdiagnosed with OCD.
Cate interviewed Brent form the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center about autism and the many factors related to that.
Cate dives in to neurodiversity as a whole, and gives a brief overview of the different forms.
Cate interviews comedian Ben Brainard on a variety of topics including the military with ADHD and object permanence.
Cate continues to talk to Leigh Ann about living with ADHD as an adult and her advice for others.
Cate interviews Leigh Ann about her experiences growing up with ADHD as a woman who was not diagnosed until college.
Cate discusses Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, a common co-occuring condition with ADHD, and interviews her younger brother on his ADHD.
Cate interviewed a guest to discuss the gender and racial bias of autism and the terms high functioning and low functioning autism.
In this short episode, Cate finishes her discussion about school by looking outside the classroom.
Cate and Patrick hone in on the difference between ADHD and ADD by looking into the history of the condition before addressing the problems with ADHD’s name.
In her first story time, Cate shares her take on being twice exceptional, or having ADHD and giftedness. She explains her history and getting diagnosed with ADHD and some of the impacts it has on her life.
In this episode, Cate discuss what the autism spectrum is and some common misconceptions about ADHD. Her and her brother also look at famous people with autism.
Cate talks about visiting Disneyland over Christmas break joins her brother in discussing ADHD’s roles in their experience. She also interviews her father, Dr. Matthew Dunn on the new Disney Genie Plus app they used while they were there.
Cate is joined by her brother Patrick to discuss the stress of the holidays when you have ADHD, and a few off topic debates about Christmas movies.