and the Riverina go way back. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading "I LOVE ALBURY-WODONGA!!" she exclaims straight off the bat in a recent phone interview. Rusciano, a performer, writer, singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven, spent her school summer holidays staying with her grandparents at Berrigan.
Her grandmother was the kindergarten teacher there for 35 years, her uncle a school bus driver and later her cousin ran Evans Butchery for years. "Riverina represent!" Rusciano says. "My childhood is filled with memories of staying with my grandparents.
"We went yabbying and spent the hot summers by the Berrigan pool!" Those family bonds and cherished rituals may have even helped hold Rusciano in good stead as she , autism and early menopause, all within the narrow window of the past five years. With only Bart Simpson and Dustin Hoffman in (1988) representing ADHD and autism in the mainstream media respectively in her mind, Rusciano says she initially struggled with her own diagnoses. She says autism in women is much more nuanced than in men or children.
"It all came totally out of left field," she says. "I was an exhausted 42-year-old woman who didn't have anything in common with Bart Simpson. "Then throw in early menopause, which exacerbated my ADHD.
" However, after two years of soul-searching and gathering information Rusciano re-gained her sense of self and found a new purpose. She gave on the subject of ADHD and her son's autism. She was widely praised for i.