About Reid Miles

Author. Podcaster. Storyteller.

I have always been curious about people.

Not just what they do, but how they became who they are.

What changed them?

What scared them?

What made them take a chance?

What happened when the life they thought they were supposed to live no longer fit?

Those questions have shaped much of my own life too.

I am Reid Miles, an author, podcaster, and storyteller. I host The Neurodivergent Connection and The Curious Storyteller, two shows built around honest conversations, lived experience, curiosity, and the stories hiding underneath the obvious ones.

But getting here took a while.

 

My Story

For much of my life, I knew I experienced the world differently, even when I did not have the words to explain why.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and later learned that I was autistic and dyslexic as well. Suddenly, many of the things I had struggled to understand about myself began to make sense.

But diagnosis was not the end of the story.

It was the beginning of a much bigger question.

What happens when you stop letting fear decide how far you are willing to go?

That question eventually took me far outside the life I once imagined for myself.

I returned to university and earned my master’s degree from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. I traveled across Europe, navigated unfamiliar cities, met people from different cultures, made mistakes, got lost, found my way again, and discovered that the world became much larger once I stopped assuming I could not handle it.

Some of those experiences became the foundation of my memoir, Fearless Footsteps.

The book is not about becoming fearless.

It is about discovering that fear does not always deserve the final vote.

The Podcaster

Podcasting gave me another way to explore something I have always been fascinated by.

People.

I am less interested in asking someone to repeat the story they have told a hundred times than I am in finding the doorway they have not opened yet.

That might be a moment from childhood.

A decision that changed everything.

A failure.

A diagnosis.

A strange idea they could not stop thinking about.

A conversation they still remember years later.

I do not want my interviews to feel like interviews.

I want them to feel like two people sitting down, getting curious, and following the story wherever it leads.

The Neurodivergent Connection

The Neurodivergent Connection explores autism, ADHD, dyslexia, identity, relationships, work, creativity, mental health, and the enormous variety of ways people experience neurodivergence.

The show grew from my own experience of being diagnosed later in life and realizing how many people had spent years asking the same question I had.

Why does life seem to work differently for me?

The conversations are not about presenting one version of what neurodivergence looks like.

They are about letting people tell their own stories.

The Curious Storyteller

The Curious Storyteller grew from an even broader curiosity.

Every person has a story, but the most interesting part is often not the headline.

It is what happened underneath it.

The show brings together writers, scientists, artists, creators, entrepreneurs, adventurers, thinkers, and people whose lives took an unexpected turn.

Some conversations begin with creativity.

Others begin with science, identity, history, grief, risk, reinvention, or a question nobody has quite answered yet.

The subject changes.

The curiosity does not.

The Author

My memoir, Fearless Footsteps, grew out of the journey that changed the way I saw myself.

It follows my decision to leave the familiar behind, study in England, travel through Europe, and discover what could happen when I stopped waiting to feel completely ready.

It is a story about neurodivergence, uncertainty, independence, belonging, and taking the next step even when you cannot see the entire path.

I am also writing fiction.

Veylorin Academy: The Willow’s Call is the beginning of a fantasy series about belonging, memory, identity, friendship, and the strange ways people discover where they truly fit.

Different genre.

Same fascination.

People trying to understand who they are.

Why Stories Matter to Me

I think some of the most important moments in our lives begin quietly.

A question.

A conversation.

A plane ticket.

A diagnosis.

A person believing in us.

A decision that seems small until we look back years later and realize everything changed after it.

Those are the stories I want to tell.

Not perfect people.

Not polished versions of complicated lives.

People who changed, stumbled, wondered, created, questioned, survived, laughed, started again, or simply saw the world differently afterward.

Because sometimes hearing someone else’s story gives us permission to look at our own a little differently.

And sometimes one curious question opens a door we did not know was there.

Start Listening

If you are new to my work, you can explore episodes of The Curious Storyteller and The Neurodivergent Connection here.

Listen to the show

https://smartlink.ausha.co/neurodivergentconnection-thecuriousstroyteller

Watch the Shows 

https://www.youtube.com/@NeurodivergentConnection

Get in Touch

Interested in being a guest, collaborating, talking about my books, or simply saying hello?

Reid@AspergersStudio.com