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Transcript:
George:
The general population think all autistic people are gifted or or savants or have some awesome capabilities.

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But the reality is most people with autism fall probably right in the middle.

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They have different deficits and different strains, but most people are aren’t typical or typical in the sense of having average abilities and and their sensory issues vary and differ, but they are not severely limited, but they’re not superhuman either

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Mark: That’s just like an impossible mountain to climb.

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Krystal: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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And the, you know, there’s also Mark and I have talked many times, you know, it’s just a matter of being able to to have conversations like we’re having and for people to get on the same page about all the issues that have held people back, you know and that’s going to take time.

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It’s not going to happen overnight, you know.

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And there’s also a lot of people that have built ways of life and are comfortable and afraid of not having those comforts and people are going to have feel like fighting back to be able to hold on to those comforts.

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And you know, and so we just have to have patience.

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But it’s, you know, but there’s something where you are determined to do you know.

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George: Yes, yes.

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I mean you know Krystal and you talked a little bit just going back to you mentioned all the isms we we discussed in our previous talk.

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But you know sometimes we it seems as though I feel that there well there there are people who are incentivized to continue creating divisions and creating the isms and creating separations rather than bringing or promoting unity.

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And and sadly it happens on so many, so many divisions whether it’s socially, economically, racially, ethnically and you know our world is so diverse but in so many ways we’re we’re with each new achievement or each new step up.

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There’s a new schism created or a new ISM as a result of the accomplishment.

George: His feelings and to connect and those.

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That’s the area where we had so much difficulty with family members because they didn’t understand and they couldn’t or in some cases wouldn’t attempt to understand him.

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They didn’t understand well, why can’t he just do certain things, why can’t he?

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And we’d explain to them and we just tell them, well, that’s a part of his autism and I think they were still perplexed and still didn’t understand.

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George: And in a lot of cases we left it on that note, them not understanding and us moving on.

Krystal: That is so difficult.