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00:00Besides humans, human people need to learn to love spiders.

00:05Human people need to learn to love spiders.

00:12Yeah, Kevin, she'll be coming behind you.

00:16Through this way?

00:17Yeah, from down over there.

00:18Oh, okay.

00:21Um, everybody, she's on her way.

00:24Hi.

00:30You've got a big crew here.

00:32Who are they here for?

00:33You.

00:35Hi, everybody.

00:38Hello.

00:39Hi.

00:40Hello.

00:41Hello, hello.

00:42How are you here?

00:43Hi, nice to meet you.

00:44My name's Lyle.

00:45Lyle?

00:46Yes.

00:47Nice to meet you, Lyle.

00:48Nice to meet you.

00:49Did you come off the plane today to come here?

00:51I came all the way from Singapore.

00:52Oh, well, you're from China?

00:55From Asia, who was just there visiting.

00:57Oh, cool, cool.

00:58You're one of my favorite dragons on Dragon's Dance.

01:00Oh, thank you.

01:01You're now my favorite.

01:02Congrats on 20 seasons on Dragon's Dance.

01:03I know.

01:04Yeah, congratulations.

01:05Nice to meet you here.

01:06Dickinson.

01:07What's your name?

01:08Name's Luca.

01:09Luca?

01:10Yes.

01:11Okay, I'm not going to remember everybody's names.

01:12Juliana.

01:13Hi, Juliana.

01:14Hi.

01:15It's nice to meet you in person versus on TV.

01:17Oh, it's so nice to meet you, too.

01:19Are there more of you coming out?

01:20That's right.

01:21Yeah.

01:22Oh, wow.

01:23Wait a minute.

01:24I had no idea there were so many.

01:25Yeah.

01:26Wow.

01:27I'm a little nervous.

01:28Don't be nervous.

01:29Okay.

01:30Be yourself, for sure.

01:31Yeah.

01:32Be yourself, yeah.

01:33This is going to be the best one, right?

01:35Yeah.

01:36Yeah.

01:37Yay.

01:38Woo-hoo.

01:39Okay, everybody.

01:40I think we're ready to get started.

01:45Juliana, can you open the show for us?

01:48Welcome to the Assembly, a collective of autistic and neurodivergent interviewers.

01:59We are very delighted to have you join us today.

02:03Our rules are no subjects are out of bounds, no questions are off the table, and all might happen.

02:12Oh.

02:13Can you please tell us who you are and embrace yourself for something fun?

02:16Okay.

02:17Well, thank you, Juliana.

02:18I am Arlene Dickinson, and I'm going to have fun.

02:23I came all this way to have fun.

02:25So, yes, we're going to have a good time.

02:27Our first question is Lucas.

02:34Thank you so much for doing this.

02:40I know you've won the Queen Elizabeth III Platinum Jubilee Medal, is that correct?

02:45Mm-hmm.

02:46I'm also King Charles III Coronation Medal.

02:48Oh, wow.

02:51That's amazing.

02:52I'd love to know why you got the King's Coronation Medal.

02:56My work in autism advocacy, among others.

02:58Wow.

02:59Okay.

03:00Anyway, my question to you, Arlene, is for anyone in the autism community or any community member,

03:05down on their luck, is there any advice or anything you would give to them?

03:08Because you've gone through so much in your life.

03:11So, I came from, like, when we came from South Africa, my family had like $50.

03:20We had no money at all.

03:22And so we lived very, very poor.

03:24We had no money for groceries.

03:26So food was a very big thing in our home.

03:28We couldn't go to the grocery store to get food whenever we wanted it because we didn't

03:32have any money.

03:33So we couldn't just go to the store to get food.

03:35You know, we had food, but it was very, wasn't like a regular thing.

03:38We never had new clothes, but I never had a new dress until I was 13 years old.

03:43Holy.

03:44And that was because I actually saved my money from babysitting to be able to buy that dress.

03:50And it cost me like $12.

03:53I can remember this like yesterday.

03:55And that was like a lot of money back then.

03:58Mm-hmm.

03:59And I think when you come from nothing, it can be easy to become a victim and say that you're

04:04always going to have nothing.

04:07But it's advocating for yourself and doing the things that are going to tell you that

04:12you can get out of the situation you're in.

04:14Absolutely.

04:15And that takes courage.

04:18And I think when you're feeling down, remember that you actually are shining for somebody

04:23else and you're making their life better.

04:26Well, I really do appreciate that.

04:28And everyone here thanks you for that.

04:30Thanks, Lucas.

04:31And next is Damon.

04:42Hello, Arlene.

04:43I'm Damon.

04:44It is lovely to have you here with us today.

04:47I am non-speaking, so will need a little time to type out my question.

05:16As a non-speaking individual, it often happens that people assume I don't understand the

05:21world around me.

05:23They address me as though I am an adorable little kid.

05:27Consequently, I am anxious in new situations.

05:31So, I am wondering, are there aspects of your life in which you feel insecure?

05:38Oh, Damon, such a good question.

05:42I'm really insecure in places where I feel judged by my appearance.

05:55So, I almost didn't go on the TV show, Damon, because I thought people were going to judge

06:02me by the way I looked.

06:04And it was a new situation for me.

06:06And I thought they were going to think that I was either too old, or too overweight, or

06:10I had too many wrinkles, or I wasn't smart enough, or didn't know what I was doing.

06:16And that made me really anxious.

06:19So, I suffer from anxiety attacks and panic attacks often.

06:25And they're scary, right?

06:26They're horrible, because you wake up in the middle of the night and you can be really upset.

06:31But I think we need to just remember that you shouldn't care what they think about you.

06:36You should only care about how you feel about yourself.

06:38When I have anxiety attacks, I tend to, I try really hard to do breathing exercises and all

06:47the things that they tell you to do when you have anxiety attacks.

06:50So, I do all that stuff.

06:51I hope maybe that'll help you too, because it helps me.

07:08Thanks.

07:13Sorry about your panic attacks.

07:16You are exceptionally lovely, and thanks for the advice.

07:20Yeah, anxiety, it's not fun.

07:23It sucks.

07:24But don't let it get to you.

07:26You're great.

07:29Oh, thank you.

07:31Okay, darling.

07:32Okay.

07:33Are you going to give me a hug?

07:35Oh, thank you.

07:36Oh, that's all.

07:46Alex is next.

07:47Sorry, my yarn's tangled.

07:50There you go.

07:52Hey.

07:53Alex, is that a snail?

07:55Yes, it is.

07:56It is a slug.

07:57I love it.

07:58Yes.

07:59Would you like to try it out?

08:00Yeah, let me try it out.

08:02Thank you for sharing it with me.

08:03It's a slug.

08:04There you go.

08:05This is a mini slug.

08:06They do come in larger sizes as well.

08:08I like it.

08:09I like it.

08:10Fantastic.

08:11I'm glad you like it.

08:12Okay, so my question for you today is, what is your biggest weakness in your career?

08:20My biggest weakness in my career has been probably not believing in myself enough early on.

08:27Yeah.

08:28I think when we're trying to build our lives, it's really easy to defeat yourself before anyone else defeats you, right?

08:37Definitely.

08:38To tell yourself you can't do things and to tell yourself you're not good enough.

08:41And so I think my biggest weakness has been not believing in myself early enough to be able to realize I could do more than I thought I could.

08:51That's fantastic.

08:52I started my career out like a slug, I would say.

08:55I was a little slow and I was sliding along.

08:59I needed to grow into something that was a little bit bigger and stronger.

09:02Yeah.

09:03I don't want to take this from you, so thank you for sharing it with you, though.

09:06It actually helped to have it.

09:09Next is Luke.

09:11Hey, Luke.

09:16Hi, Arlene.

09:19Thank you for being a guest on the assembly.

09:24My question for you is, have you always had a love for people?

09:29As an introvert myself, I find extroverts interesting.

09:38That's such a good question, Luke.

09:44Oh, you make me cry.

09:53So I'm an introvert too, Luke.

09:55And people think I'm an extrovert because I'm on TV and I'm like I'm out there as a public personality.

10:02But I think I think introverts are just people who feel things inside, but they still it doesn't mean that they don't like people.

10:15Right.

10:16Just because you're introverted doesn't mean you don't like people.

10:18And I love people, but I like having just a few people around me at a time.

10:23The reason I'm crying is my parents taught me to love people.

10:27But I am very much an introvert, very insecure introvert.

10:32So it's interesting how we can see people on the outside and we can judge them for what we see.

10:39And we think they're a certain way, but we never know what people are feeling on the inside.

10:44Right?

10:45Right.

10:47It's a really great question, Luke, and thank you for recording it.

10:50All that, all that work on my makeup, gone.

10:57But just that, yeah.

10:58It's natural to, natural to feeling.

11:01Yeah, it's natural.

11:02Natural to show emotion.

11:04Yeah.

11:05Yeah, it's natural to show emotion.

11:06The kindness that makes you beautiful, actually.

11:07Not, uh, not really the makeup.

11:08Aww.

11:09Yeah, it's okay to be emotional.

11:10It's all right.

11:11Everyone has those moments.

11:12It's okay.

11:13Yeah.

11:14Next is Conrad.

11:20Hello, Arlene.

11:21Hey, Conrad.

11:22Thanks for coming here.

11:24Um, since nothing is off the table, what led you to have an affair?

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12:18married when i was 19 years old and and i didn't i don't know like i just wasn't thinking very well

12:24i was young and i was in a hurry to get married and i was in a hurry to fall in love

12:29and i was really unhappy in my marriage and i wasn't very mature and i was looking for love

12:38in all the wrong places that's what led me down right yeah yeah i was very young and i was just

12:48the first person that showed me some love i thought loved me and it was exactly the wrong thing to do

12:54so i'm not very proud of that moment but that's why i did it we appreciate thank you for sharing

13:00yeah yeah you're welcome next is dylan hello arlene my question for you is you wake up and everyone

13:15thinks you are kevin o'leary what would you do would you freak out or lean in what would you do

13:27he is so different than i am we couldn't be more opposite of each other like well first of all

13:35i have hair is that a little bird

13:46and second of all i like to make people happy not tell them that they can't do something i would be

13:52doing everything i could to tell them that i was a nice version of kevin o'leary so i'd be kevin o'leary

14:002.0 i like that yeah yeah yeah thanks dylan uh bobby you're up oh okay hey bobby

14:16is there a childhood experience that still haunts you today and how does it affect your life now

14:29yes when my when my parents got divorced when i was 13 years old because i came from a very poor

14:37very poor upbringing and that was a really difficult time for me i had to learn to take care of myself

14:45and that i couldn't rely on anyone else to take care of me and so so that was very hard sorry to

14:50hear that yeah thank you that still drives me today where i feel like um everything i have could be taken

14:57away from me tomorrow and so i'm still very driven to to to do as best as i can and take care of myself

15:05and my family and it still drives me every day yeah thanks bobby nicole you're next

15:22i've had some seizures before so i'm using a walker like that okay so due to my autism i was ostracized

15:34as a student my question for you is what was your social life like in school

15:47well i'm sad to hear you were ostracized because of your autism that's that's just wrong

15:53um i was younger in school so i i was i was i was a smart kid so i was two years younger than

16:02everybody else in my class and so when i graduated high school i was 16 years old and everybody else

16:08would have been almost 18 years old and i didn't fit in i didn't fit in with the older kids and i

16:14didn't fit in with the younger kids because the younger kids were behind me in school and the older

16:18kids thought i was just a kid you know they didn't want to hang with me and i wasn't one of the cool

16:23kids like i was not a cool kid at all i was like really nerdy and i just didn't i wasn't cool i still

16:29am not a cool kid like i you know what i think it's okay like all the kids in school that were like the

16:35cool kids if you meet them today they're not as cool today so you just realize that that's their

16:41moment in time they peak early that's what i say they peak early um but i i think kids can be super

16:49mean and i and i and yeah i've seen that yeah an experience that's been my experience yeah we were

16:57all surrounded by assholes when we were kids exactly yeah yeah yeah that was a great question thank you

17:05thank you sophie you're next okay so my question is uh uh bring up your podcast um with the title

17:20arlene is alone uh what's it like being alone at your age oh wow well

17:28i actually really like being alone because i get to do whatever i want whenever i want to do it

17:39and i actually i'm never really alone if you've watched the podcast i always have people on the

17:45show but being alone is nothing to be afraid of being alone can can be scary when it first happens

17:52to you but you can again you can be strong and just because i'm not with somebody like romantically

17:59doesn't mean i don't have friends i have lots of friends yeah yeah yeah thanks sophie luca you are next

18:08hello arlene dickinson i am here to ask you a question this one's gonna kind of cut a little deep

18:14um so i heard you got divorced

18:20and i wonder like how did you feel um when when that divorce happened when you lost custody of children

18:31like you guys go right to the heart yeah um how i felt at the time it was devastating it was awful it

18:41was really really hard and so going through divorce when you have little kids was not easy and i felt

18:48like a failure um what kind of failure did you feel like you were on on did you feel like you were

18:56falling off a waterfall i think i felt like i was hitting a wall like i was driving into a wall because i

19:05i felt like it stopped me and and so i'd say it was more like that you know my my ex-husband is no

19:12longer alive so what i would say is you have to forgive i had to forgive him and i hope he forgave me

19:21because if you carry hate in your heart and it just makes you unhappy and and what do they say you

19:28don't want somebody living rent-free in your head understood

19:43hey

19:58that was fun

20:02okay

20:05thank you

20:07that was fun great okay everybody is back kevin you are next

20:14hello arlene welcome and congrats on 20 seasons of dragon's den so i'd like to congratulate thank you

20:19so my question is um when you got your first divorce you were kicked out of the mormon church

20:24how did that feel how do you feel about the church now

20:30yeah um i did get kicked out of the church and it at the time it felt like it was devastating

20:39but you know to me religion is only good if it teaches you how to be a better human not if it teaches

20:46you to divide and to think that other people aren't are good enough and and the church actually gave me

20:53a lot of good foundational teachings that i take with me still today um so i don't i don't hold it

21:00against the church that they excommunicated me

21:03in some ways they set me free to be who i am so yeah like when the door closes and the door opens

21:12that's right yeah similar to that yeah just because they didn't want me doesn't mean somebody

21:16else like yeah yeah yeah as long as you feel happy now it doesn't yeah exactly yeah and i do feel happy

21:22now yeah excellent thank you kevin thanks kevin okay uh next is juliana

21:34when writing your book persuasion what was the biggest thing that it forced you to admit to yourself

21:41that you hadn't said out loud before oh yeah that first book was really hard because

21:48when you write a book you have to really be prepared to say things that you haven't said to

21:54everybody before so that you can be really honest and transparent and so for me it was admitting all of

22:01the things that i doubted about myself it was very difficult to admit out loud you know things that i

22:10wasn't sure about and and didn't hadn't done right um in particular you know like the divorce i'd gone

22:16through and having to raise my four children and all of these very personal things that i now was

22:22sharing with complete strangers because they were going to read a book about it but when you share

22:28things that are really personal and hard for you to share it actually makes you stronger not weaker

22:34right being vulnerable actually makes you a stronger human thank you thank you juliana devin is next

22:46hey devin uh madam hey aline my question for you is

22:55can i help you a little how do you feel how do you feel about professor

23:16how do i feel about the future yeah um

23:19um i'm worried about the future because i think people are kind of gone a little bit

23:28out there right now and the world can be feeling a little bit like it's spinning too fast if that

23:32makes sense you know do you ever get the sense that things are going too fast yeah things aren't in

23:37control right yeah i feel that way about the world right now um but i think the future is going to be

23:43better i think people are going to hopefully figure out how to hold hands and get along and

23:48i really want to believe that people are going to sort it out i hope that technology doesn't replace

23:55this what i love about this is it's people talking to people what i hate about technology is that we're

24:01looking at our phones or looking at our computers and we're not talking to each other anymore so i

24:07really like i hope the future is more human interaction great thank you devin

24:13thanks devin thank you julia is next hey arlene hey first of all i know that when someone else tells

24:24you this it doesn't mean anything all the time um but i think you're gorgeous oh thank you oh thank you

24:32i'm sorry you feel that way about yourself i get that way too yeah yeah who in your life do you think

24:38do you think sees you as you see yourself oh wow i don't think anybody sees us as we see ourselves

24:50i i actually think we we how we think we are is generally not how other people see us

24:57how we think we're showing up might not be how other people are receiving us because of where they're

25:02added their lives i don't even think my kids see me for as i am i don't think anybody does i think i

25:08see myself for who i think i am but i'm not sure how i show up always so it's interesting but thank you

25:16for saying what you said at the beginning that means a lot it's true you're beautiful too thank you

25:22yeah thank thank you for coming here all right everybody nicole

25:29is going to close the show for us so how was this experience for you it was probably the best tv

25:49experience i've ever had and i've had lots of tv experience so it was amazing was it hard or easy

25:58it was harder than i thought because you asked really good personal tough questions

26:06um and it was easier than i thought because you're all so kind and easy to get along with

26:12did you learn anything yeah i learned that we can be really quick to judge we can be too fast to assume

26:20that people you know can't do things because of their either their physical appearance or their you know

26:26their challenges like we all have and i've learned to again remember to be understanding and patient

26:34and to help other people succeed is really what i care about so i've learned a lot yeah

26:39thank you for joining us thank you so much thank you everybody

26:52uh hi guys nice to meet you guys nice to meet you nice to meet you

27:00something i don't know what did i say okay everyone everyone come on okay i'll go

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