Autism Taught Me The Most Important Lessons

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]compelled to talk about this right now and I don't have a script, but I'm going to start off by telling you guys what spurred this. Well, first of all, April is technically autism awareness month, right? And I feel like people are aware of autism at this point. It's just so prevalent. And that's a whole other conversation whether or not this is like greater diagnosis or and you know greater awareness more diagnoses from that or if it is actually increasing.

[00:00:32]There's so much to talk about but I just learned especially on the internet when it comes to autism it shouldn't be.

[00:00:39]Unfortunately it can be a very divisive subject and I feel like I can't say anything about it. I can't say anything about autism without an adult person who happens to be on the autism spectrum trying to correct me and even when it's stuff that I I I really don't think is so that's another thing. Okay, once again a whole other conversation. What I wanted to say was autism has taught me the most important lessons about everybody in the way that I feel like and I'm not perfect. I have my bad days.

[00:01:10]Please don't think that I never lose my patience. And um I have a son who is 9 years old and level three autistic. And I actually was raised by somebody who wrote and published books on autism starting in the '9s. My my father with a PhD. So I grew up hearing about autism.

[00:01:29]I grew up hearing about the autism moms who tried the diets and he would poke fun at that and make fun of that. Once again, there's so many subjects to talk about, so many different things to go into. I don't ever want an autistic a person who happens to be on the autism spectrum or a caretaker, a loved one of a person on the autism spectrum getting hurt feelings by something I say. That's one reason I tend to like just stay away from it. Then I'm like, you know, it's almost the end of autism awareness month. I really don't make much content about this. I see this lady, I'm not going to say her channel, she has a free food pantry and I think it's lovely.

[00:02:02]Obviously, I started following it, right? her and her husband and their community stock this free food pantry.

[00:02:08]And she has made several videos, several videos in a row now, talking about how somebody took a plastic basket out of their free food pantry. Mind you, this is a shed that probably cost at least $1,000, maybe even a few thousand, which once again, I'm praising them. Like, I think it's great that they saw a need.

[00:02:24]They could fill it. They're a, you know, dink couple. If you don't know what that means, double income, no kids. So, they have this free food pantry. Somebody took a plastic basket and this lady cannot get over it. And I was just thinking, wow, like I do a I understand all sides. Okay, I understand why that irked her. I don't understand why her life is revolving around the fact that somebody took a plastic basket out of a free food pantry. And my whole point to her was like, I said this in two different comments and two different videos. Neurologically atypical people might walk into a shed that says everything is free. and they might take something and that might seem rude. That might seem like they're trying to take advantage to somebody that doesn't understand. In their mind, brains are so complex and can operate so differently.

[00:03:09]In their mind, they're in some place that has free food. Everything in here is free. I I think it might have been malicious. Sure, it might have been somebody saying, "Well, they can afford to let me have this plastic basket." But like I don't understand why somebody that is giving enough to invest in a shed in all this for their community, why they draw the line at a plastic basket. And I wouldn't say that if she could just like get over it. And it really makes me wary when I see situations like this. And like so we we talk about autism a lot. Everybody's aware of autism, but can we like try to see the nuances and situations where somebody doesn't react the way that you think a normal or a typical person or in a way that you would react and just give them the benefit of the doubt because that is the greatest lesson that autism has taught me. And I know not everybody I mean there's, you know, some people might say like we're all we all fall on the spectrum somewhere technically or most of us do. And I don't want to be dismissive of people with genuine struggles that are way more spectrumy than the next person, but the whole point is like I I unfollowed her once again. Yeah, I'm announcing it. But then the videos keep popping up. So, of course, I'm curious. I'm like, is she still talking about this plastic basket?

[00:04:22]And sure enough, she is. This woman is a professional. And it's just like if you have the heart to give away free food, build a whole shed to store the free food, why can't you get over a plastic basket? And it reminds me of when I was furoughed for 6 months and at a certain time our cabinets and our fridge were pretty bare. Nothing in the freezer. And I started to feel desperate. And I know what that feels like. And like these free pantries where they're like, "Don't grocery shop. Don't use this as a replacement for grocery shopping. Just take what you need." Some people need a whole like grocery shop worth of items.

[00:04:55]And I do understand it's just like foraging, you know, like you take what you need, you leave some for somebody else if that's polite, right? Like there's a really good sale on something.

[00:05:03]It is rude to like literally take all of it, right? But like it's just so American. It's so American to set up a free food pantry and then complain endlessly about when somebody takes a plastic basket. And they did look like they probably weren't from the dollar store. Like, I'll give her that. They probably were like a nicer plastic basket, but if she really insists on having plastic baskets, she needs to go get some dollar baskets from the dollar store. You know what I mean? Hi, TWWC.

[00:05:30]How are you? Thank you for saying welcome back, TWWTY. I mean, how are you? Uh, Charlie wants to try to high five a cloud, but it goes to him in no sense passive aggressive brain whenever he wears socks, the wiggy said. That's funny. So, yeah, I I just wanted to make that PSA. If somebody does something like takes something from a free food pantry you didn't want them to take, don't just I know there are a lot of people that do take advantage when they can, right? But that's what is so I I can't stand seeing there's recently a FedEx driver who unalived a little girl and they tried to like he has a laundry list of mental diagnoses, but one of them is autism and the lawyer specifically said it was his autism.

[00:06:10]That's why I'm so tired of that. But it started with Adam Lanza. really started with Adam Lanca back then where it's like, oh, um, he's a school shooter. He like it's his aut No, autistic people aren't like inherently violent. Their meltdowns can be, but like you just never see this be brought up when it comes to like um a reason for why something might happen to like explain better than like being, you know, murderous. Like some people might go into a shed that says everything in here is free and think that includes everything that's not bolted down. And it's a literal way of thinking that a lot of people on the spectrum, it can be a blessing sometimes. You know, it can be hilarious. Once I asked my son, "How did you sleep?" And he said, "On the bed." [laughter] You know, that's what we ask each other every morning. How did you sleep? How do you feel? And so, um, even though he wasn't talking that much, that's one thing I do with my kids, like I talk to them just as much as I would if it was a very verbal kid, you know, just like constantly narrating, even more if anything. Constantly narrating, asking questions, giving choices. This helps kind of like bring them a little bit more into your own world. Not that that's always the goal, but um, and then said, "Amen." And so, like, I know it's like a problem of mine. I'm like, I want to stop making like reaction like reaction to somebody else. Like one of my last videos I was talking about Jesse on fire, talking about Kyle Kolinsky, and I'm like, yeah, I I want to do more like my most recent edited video, which is just like a general idea talking about the American dream. What was the American dream? How long was it really feasible for most Americans to even be able to achieve it? And the more I thought about it, I'm like, you know what? I think at the heart of the American dream, it was self-sustainability. It was the freedom and liberty to be able to live off the land. And I think that's one reason why so many people are so attracted to it.

[00:08:02]And we got it in our heads for decades.

[00:08:05]It was like about consumerism. It was about upgrading your house. Every time you moved, you get a bigger, better house. Every time you get a car, you get a newer, better car. You know, this and that. And like maybe it was never about that. And being forced out of that mindset is actually a blessing. Not being able to afford to keep up with the Joneses the way that our parents could, you know, more easily is a way that it's going to force us or more of us to like grow our own food and do what we need to do to remove ourselves from the decaying systems. It's they're not serving anybody but the 1% at the top or, you know, however many. Um, so yeah, I just wanted to say that autism, once again, I'm not a perfect person.

[00:08:46]And I I do want to make some shorts, but that's another thing. I wanted to make like some inspirational shorts on having a child with special needs. And it's always in the back of my mind. I don't ever want to make somebody who feels absolutely hopeless already like ashamed. Um because I'm like, "Oh, it's it's been a blessing. It's taught me good lessons." And I because like I have moment of course. Nobody hopes when they're pregnant that their child ends up having level three autism, you know?

[00:09:13]And once again, somebody's going to take that the wrong way, but it's just the truth. I don't know how else to say it.

[00:09:17]Nobody's like, "I hope he has your autism." And like I'm talking about when your child is affected by everyday things. The sensory issues are so bad.

[00:09:25]You know, like autism is not a curse.

[00:09:28]No. When it is severe enough to affect almost every aspect of their life and you have to witness a child endure like adult like anxiety, the anxiety that only adults should have to deal with, right? And so I feel like my nose is it's not running. It's like barely. Um, it's cool out here, but I like it. Like, I needed to cool off and get out here.

[00:09:49]Um, but yeah, it is some I tell myself, we picked our battles before we came here. I just feel like that instinctually, like our soul chose our battles. So, as I would never say to another person, God only gives you what you can handle. You know, that sentiment. But I I do feel like at the very least if you're a caretaker of somebody with any kind of special needs, you should feel proud and honored and hopefully get to the point where you look at that as an honor and a privilege to be able to take care of somebody like that. And that's how I feel. But like once again, it's it's not always easy.

[00:10:27]It's not easy to think about a time where I might not be in the world to defend him and there's going to be people just going around assuming the worst of the worst with people when there's only more and more people it seems like on the spectrum every month.

[00:10:41]Right? I don't have a pool. That's why they scare people with about communism.

[00:10:47]The more you are self-sufficient, live off the land, work the land, the less you need a job or money. Right, Mr. Money? And look at my seedlings. They were doing kind of poorly, but um they've been out for like almost 48 hours straight. I do need to see I keep losing eucalyptus.

[00:11:03]I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like trying all these different things and my eucalyptus seedlings die. So, I'm going to I have some more seeds. I'm going to plant some more seeds.

[00:11:12]Um what is this? This is so vibrant. Oh, this is a money plant. They have really cool seed pots. It's a bianial. that's not going to flower this year. But they make these like papery pods that are cool in bouquets. This whole tray I'm sorry I'm trying to see if I can if I'm showing you guys. This whole tray is wormwood and that's a great plant that um bad bugs don't like it. So I'm going to try to plant that everywhere I can because of the ticks. And there's tons of lonear ticks. Most every tick we find is a lonear tick. every lots of people all around the country are reporting that and they're some of the worst in terms of alpha gal transmission. And there's another kind of disease. People don't even talk about lime as much as alpha gal lately. And I said this um in an edited video, but like I get like 40 views on those. I did know somebody who healed from that. So that is good to know. I think he said he got allergy shots. Gosh, I wish I could remember, but he was allergic to dairy and red meat and he's not anymore. Hey Anna, how are you? I had to give uh yes a because there's a lady Anna who has a free food pantry. Okay. And you know like I think that's awesome. But she she won't stop bringing up how somebody took a plastic basket out of her free food pantry.

[00:12:28]Okay. And I'm like get over it. The first few times. Okay. Second. Third.

[00:12:34]Okay. And then like the fourth fifth she keeps bringing it up. She put up a sign and she put be considerate. And oh yeah I wanted to add this too. like they this person that took it might not want to bring it back because they might feel shame. Like if that was me and I did something like that on accident. I would definitely feel too ashamed to show my face again. I'd be like all nervous and scared. And that's another thing. It's like uh I don't understand the ment. So I'm just going to say it. Okay. I wasn't going to say it, but I'm just going to say it now. We're all friends here. It's I it feels like people like her are doing it for social media content to get a pat on the ass about how they're feeding the community. And I don't care why you're doing it. Even if it is just for those reasons, I still think it's a good thing overall. But like, why would you get so mad over somebody taking a plastic basket? And my point was, and nobody's answering my comments. Granted, it's just been two, but I just think it's interesting nobody's answered my comments because there's people that have definitely commented on her videos like get over it, you know, being and I was just like just I'm going to be that person. neurologically atypical people might walk into a shed that says everything is free and take something that's not necessarily free, you know, and that wasn't done maliciously and oh my gosh, just like after the fifth or sixth time I saw her complain about it, I was like, you know, it's April Autism Awareness Month. I don't I don't think lighting it up blue is going to help anybody on the spectrum. Honestly, we need to talk about like nuances and situations like this where it's like, you know, like a lot of people think very literally and it could be anything.

[00:13:58]It could be something that's not autism related. It could be somebody had a stroke and a part of their brain that makes decisions is a little damaged or something and they they didn't see the plastic bags. The plastic bags are down on the floor cuz she's like, "We offer plastic bags, but they're like down on the floor." Maybe it was somebody with mobility issues that grabbed the basket.

[00:14:16]And if you don't want people to take the baskets, don't leave baskets there. Or like other people mentioned, there's like double-sided tape or like screwing it down is always an option. Eucalyptus is the hardest to grow. Don't beat yourself up over it. Thanks for saying that, Anna. Oh my gosh, it's so disappointing because I would love that.

[00:14:34]Um, Rhett, are you talking about me being a drama queen? Ironic. I was born premature and autistic on autism awareness month. Well, happy birthday, Rhett. Hi, P. How are you doing? It's and it's what makes people not ever trust a Christian or anyone kind.

[00:14:49]You are supposed to give with a giving heart and not expect anything in return.

[00:14:52]And I'm just going to say it because like after she kept complaining about it, I was like, "You know what? Maybe people assume if you can afford the shed, it's a nice shed. It costs at least a thousand bucks. It's like cedar lined walls. It you and I know like this was cedar fence post. It's but this was like looked like high quality cedar.

[00:15:10]Okay. And it's like um this was like the lowest quality and she can afford that.

[00:15:16]Maybe it's not somebody like I hate to say it, but like I do understand I understand her getting mad about it, you know, to a certain extent. I understand her being like, "Oh, somebody wasn't supposed to take that. That's unfortunate." But if you can afford to do a big grocery shop once a week, can you not afford to get another plastic basket or like learn your lesson from it and get over it?

[00:15:37]Um, my nose looks good. Car [laughter] know the joke about the one obsessing over the basket. She's the drama queen.

[00:15:42]Okay, Rat, I'm sorry. Okay, thanks for clarifying cuz I thought that I was like, I know you've been in here before and I don't think you were trolling. Not that anybody can't say anything against me or what I'm saying or call me a drama queen. I have trouble list like with plant markers. I'm sure a lot of gardeners understand the struggle. And I just did this for the first time yesterday. Why is this the first time I've ever thought about writing on rocks with a Sharpie? You guys don't understand how many different things I've tried as plant markers. And I know the Sharpie and the rain water.

[00:16:14]I'm gonna try to like put them on the wood, like not in the soil when I can, but like I planted a bunch of stuff yesterday and I was just I was laughing at myself because this is always a problem. Oh, okay. See, I got water crest. I can't see if you guys can see.

[00:16:29]I got water crest. It's a really pretty green bean. Scarlet Emperor. It's like edible. Oh my god. I'll show you. The actual beans are beautiful. Like the beans are the most beautiful beans I've ever seen in my life. And I guess it's grown as like an ornamental because it has tons of red flowers. So, I'm excited about that. But I'm going to harvest the beans, too. There once again, I took pictures of them. Was I'm going to show you guys. I had at least a dozen things planted in here.

[00:17:01]And I still have mostly root vegetables.

[00:17:03]Oh gosh, I have so much root vegetables, herbs, and salad greens. I still have to put in this raised bed. And then we've got our um inground plot that I'm going to have to dedicate like an hour or two or three to planting to sewing seeds every day. You know, there's no way I'm going to get everything done cuz I have to like amend the soil, cut the landscaping fabric.

[00:17:25]And yes, I have to say it every time.

[00:17:27]Landscaping fabric isn't ideal, but for us in our budget, it was. And honestly, we got it using like credit. Like it was our best option or we wouldn't have anything to cover our soil. We just like couldn't afford.

[00:17:38]It would have been like $250 at least for mulch cuz you need to I tried mulch last year and I didn't do it thick enough. You need like six or eight inches of mulch to really keep away weeds especially Bermuda grass. That's crazy. And then how can you grow annuals in that? You have to like make mounds which is fine. Like I did it with winter squash but and summer squash. But anyways, I um yeah, I just wanted to anybody needs that nuance lesson or anybody like that's how I look at the glass is half full. Like I feel blessed to have had the experience and I think I'm on the spectrum too. I'm diagnosing myself. I don't I don't think I have to go somewhere to get diagnosed. I'm definitely atypical. I've always been like that. When I was younger, I masked a lot. I couldn't read analog clocks. I couldn't tell north, south, east, west.

[00:18:28]I I was so smart in so many ways, but I literally couldn't remember this is north, this is south, and east and east and west, you know, like I couldn't grasp those concepts. And looking back, that was definitely just my brain operates differently and a lot of people's do and you will be so much better off, healthier. Okay, this is another thing. I know this might sound like a lowb blow to somebody, but this woman's trying to get pregnant and I would never comment this to her. I don't want to stress out a lady trying to get pregnant, but it's another thing. If you're trying to get pregnant, you'd be best off not getting so mad over plastic baskets. You know, you hear all these stories of women that try and try and try and then the second they like let go and stop worrying so much, they get pregnant because your stress on your body isn't conducive to necessarily like getting pregnant as easy as you want to.

[00:19:14]I know when I got pregnant, the I got pregnant the first month, first try with the last baby, my oldest like um you know, I was the oldest. I was 30 when he was born. um out of my three babies and we we were like on vacation for a month.

[00:19:30]Um my husband was in between jobs and he got severance. So like we were you know deciding where to buy our house and like everything was really happy and free and like I just assumed I wouldn't get pregnant that easy cuz with our second it took me two years because I have PCOS. So I just assumed I wasn't going to get pregnant. We could just start trying now even though we didn't have a home. [laughter] We were staying in my parents' basement and I'm like, um, actually we got pregnant in my Louisville apartment before we left this apartment. I had a 13-month lease on.

[00:20:02]And anyways, and then when we got pregnant the first month, I was in shock. I'm like, I cannot believe that.

[00:20:07]Because I wasn't focusing on it. We were just like, "Yeah, let's do this. Let's have a third. When it happens, it happens." Totally expecting. Like I went to a fertility doctor at the age of 23 because I wasn't getting pregnant with the second one. And he didn't do any fertility treatments, but he did give me amatipptalene and antihistamine and very low doses. I mean like five ten milligrams, super low doses that were going to help me calm my nerves. And that did help me get pregnant. I think it did. And I was supposed to stop taking those as soon as I got pregnant, which I did, which is no big deal because there's no tapering off like 10 milligrams, you know. Um, oh, Eric, that's so sweet. Thank you. So, do you have an awkward stem like autistics do?

[00:20:46]Red. Sometimes I have ticks like my face ticks. I I'm surprised I don't do it more on YouTube. Like if I go to a job interview or something, you know, um I don't want to say confrontational, but if it's like me talking to somebody else in real life, often my eye twoo and I my sensory issues have gotten worse the older I get. Like I don't remember having tons of sensory issues when I was younger, but now um when I only wear my hair down like for YouTube, I wear my hair up most of the time. I I can't stand the feeling of having and that's one reason why I mess with it sometimes a lot. It's uh sense I don't know if you guys can tell like sometimes I'm like oh my god there's like stuff on my face and that seems to bother me more the older I get.

[00:21:35]But I women are just better at masking.

[00:21:38]I remember getting on my nerves. I always had a friend or my brother that was like tapping their foot. You know, we all know those people that have to like constantly be moving. I [laughter] would always kind of get on my nerves.

[00:21:48]So, when I found myself doing something like that, I'd be like, "No, stop.

[00:21:51]You're not going to do that. You're not going to tap non-stop." And I know that's um once again that that was kind of stupid of me. I'm over it now. Now that I'm older, I'm like, "Oh, like you know, that's somebody everybody is different. Some people like propreceptive input. That's like deep pressure. I used to make weighted blankets and like some people crave that and love that and some people are the opposite. They're like they feel it and they're like get it off of me, you know?

[00:22:15]And it's interesting like from one day to the next I'm different. Yeah. To put guidance and stuff on credit. Now that's what I'm talking about. Let's keep those tax breaks for the super wealthy coming.

[00:22:23]Michelle said, "Yeah, it was like $50 or $80. I forget what it was." And then we saw it's cheaper now because we got it ahead of time because the bed got overgrown last year and we're like that's not happening now. Oh, we have a little bit of credit cuz uh we didn't even know we had my husband does delivery for Walmart sometimes and then they offered him some credit. We're like, "Sure." Yeah, I know. And um we really don't have a lot of credit. We were surprised. He doesn't have a great credit score. And I think that says it all. I think that says it all. Uh we don't have a lot out on credit, but we we chronically late with bills like I'm sure a lot of people are nowadays. And so, yeah, he when he got offered that and then he got offered another one recently and I'm like, that's that says it all about how the credit card companies are struggling that they're offering somebody um I don't know what it is. I think he probably doesn't want me to say it, but let's just say it's a kind of credit score usually you don't get credit card offers when you have it, you know. Um uh you had to put gardens up. I already read that. I've heard those stories.

[00:23:23]Cranberry said. David says, "See my comment. I'm looking at the channel activity. I see stress woman, right, guys? I thought we were talking about gardening like two seconds ago." Yes, that's what I do in my lives. You um Well, I mean, autism is in the title and I'm in the garden, so I figured I'd end up talking about the garden. I've heard it's easier to get pregnant when you eat a lot of limes. That's interesting.

[00:23:47]Cranberry David, I already read that comment of David. It's not autism. It's a human reaction to stress. Rebecca said, "Yes, definitely." Um, see, that's the thing. What is autism really? I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist, but it's a group of symptoms grouped together labeled as something, you know, and um almost if you took them individually, that's the whole point of autism. It affects somebody with communication, socially, and self-care.

[00:24:13]It has to affect people. Years ago, that was more the criteria in the DSM. And that changes from year to year, you know, I know they take aspers out. Um, which is super interesting to me. But I wonder if PCOS has anything to do with our food chemicals and things are just a natural disease. Definitely. Uh, Mr. Money, in my opinion, PCOS definitely does. I think that Okay, I have a video that I made years ago talking about how fish in the Pomacic River were growing eggs. Male fish. Okay, fish that don't usually grow eggs ever. This isn't a feature. like the male fish were growing eggs because of the hormones in the water because we can't filter out. We filter out bad things but we don't filter out pharmaceuticals or at least not all of them. So imagine all the hormones people are taking even more so now with every you know everything going on that all ends up in our water supply.

[00:25:00]The animals to show it the first are the ones that live in the water and that's why biologists look towards aquatic creatures to see what's really starting in an environment and that's what's so I found a environmental scientist. I love this lady. Of course, I can't remember her channel name. She has a really small channel name channel and she agreed with me that the reverse osmosis might be a reason why my youngest had dental issues. It's just But yeah, I definitely think that hormone it's not evolution when there's more and more of a disease that causes infertility in women, you know. And once again, that's not to shame anybody.

[00:25:33]That's not shaming towards the the women. It's like we're products of our environment for sure. Like I have the awkward stem of constantly needing to sniff or smell things. That's my own worst enemy. Rhett, that that sounds funny, Rhett. Not to laugh at you, but like um that's interesting to me. Men are so simple. We just want nice shiny rug.

[00:25:52]Hi, Henry. How are you? Men just went a woman's world, right, guys? David said, "I don't know about that, David. We could talk about periods more." That was the case. Mr. Money, I think people that do things like that is a tick response to a control and anxiety or panic attack trying to maintain self-control.

[00:26:05]Um my baby has autism. paper seat belt said, "I don't know how old your baby your baby, listen to me, your baby is, but I hope that you guys are doing well." And um I don't talk a lot about see I my youngest is nine. Um I've had other people in my family like, you know, kind of like overcome it. I don't think my youngest is going to grow out of it. I had people say that my brother outgrew it. And I know they're not trying to be mean or anything. Like I wouldn't say that to somebody like expect them to outgrow it. But it is like you just never know. You know, you never know. When they have this saying, when you meet one person on the spectrum, you've met one person on the spectrum. Lily said, "So sick of autistics." Well, Lily, I don't know if you're still in here, but earlier I did say, "I don't Yeah, you're a troll.

[00:26:53]Tylenol babies. Tylenol is the glutathione depleter. Glutathione is a master antioxidant. Even the company Tylenol says not to take Tylenol when you're pregnant." So, everybody trolling about that needs to realize a company Tylenol says not to take Tylenol while pregnant. Why is that? And why do doctors tell you to when the company that manufactures it? There's a huge hiccup in the system, I feel like. And um I was prescribed ibuprofen, took all of it, given like a month, you know, 30 a month, a few months in a row, and then I went to the doctor. They're like, "Why are you taking all that ibuprofen?

[00:27:25]That's horrible. Whoa, whoa." I'm like, "You're prescribing this amount per month to me." And I'm taking it like you have to be your own advocate. You definitely do. But yes, I think that a lot and once again this is I think that people who are autistic tend to have comorbid conditions. I don't think that it is glutathione depletion equals autism. I think that their brains are always going to be wired differently, but a lot of the things that come with it, the gut issues, maybe even some of the sensory issues could be helped if you did things with diets and everything, okay? And like, but that's not to say that they can be cured with the diet. And there's always somebody that like, you know, a adult on the spectrum wants to shame people, but it's like, where do you draw the line? Are you going to shame somebody for taking their child to speech therapy, occupational therapy, to get a developmental interventionist involved?

[00:28:18]Like, why are you shaming? We're just like, when you see your kid go through hell on a daily basis, you want to help them. You want to make their life easier and better. And that doesn't mean you don't want them to be autistic at all, you know? And it's just like hard when people shame you for like talking about what helps them. Okay. Wild yam and geranium oil is what got me pregnant.

[00:28:41]That's so cool, Anna. Yes, wild yam, the progesterone and wild yam is what I think played a part. I was using that to actually when I got pregnant within a month. And I had no poly I had no follicle cyst, which PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome. They're not actually true cysts. When you get an ultrasound, you see it looks like a string of pearls. It's just like tons of little white circles in your ovaries. I had those done several times. Even one time a doctor said I did not have PCOS. Gave me the TV ultrasound. It's transvaginal and it's not the kind that they do when you're pregnant. It's like on your stomach. And she goes, "You don't have PCOS. You just have polycystic ovaries."

[00:29:18]Literally, a gynecologist actually said that to me in Louisville.

[00:29:22]Women's first, the premiere, the best doctors in Louisville. And um anyway, so my last ultrasound I didn't have, but I my facial hair is getting worse and worse. So I know that there's still stuff going on with my hormones. Even though my periods were like clockwork before I got my uterus taken out, I still feel like there's something going on. But doctors in the last few years refuse to test hormones. Now they say you need to get your blood done every day for a month to get a true snapshot of your hormones. So how do they give people hormone replacement therapy? I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.

[00:29:55]Autism is a thing that has its stages where there are extreme forms of it. You notice when people can't form actual speech, they just make the weird sound the entire time. Yes, Rhett. Um, so this is one thing that I brought up that like people tend to jump down my throat. I'm not saying this across the board about all people. I'm not I'm not saying this like I I don't know why people get offended by this. I think a lot of them are telepathic. There's these things called the telepathy tapes. They uh when some of them become verbal, they describe when they're like asleep, they go to a place, the specific place a lot of them describe being on a hill. How do you explain that? And I'm not just saying this, you guys. You don't have to believe me. My sister, like she was never diagnosed, but like let's be real.

[00:30:37]She's my sister. One time when we were like 10, 11 years old, she woke up, sat up in bed, and she said, "We go to the hill every night." I'm getting goosebumps. I [laughter] was like, "What?" I always remember that. That always stuck with me. She did sleepwalk.

[00:30:51]She did do some goofy for a few years, you know, like we'd wake up and she'd be like asleep in a different place and she was on the top bunk so she'd be like climbing down a ladder asleep and it was crazy. But I that always stuck with me her saying we go to the hill every night and I was like okay. So whenever I started hearing about this and there's times where my son he just like he stares at me and and it is sad of course you you want them to be able to communicate their needs and especially when they're sick. It's the worst, you know, like we we can communicate enough and have a good day and you're kind of in your own little bubble and then you really realize how much it sucks that they can't communicate with words when they need something, you know, when they are ill.

[00:31:33]And um anyways, that's one reason why they have a non-verbal people have a lower life expectancy because I I've heard horror stories that it's horrible.

[00:31:42]You know, these kids have hernas and stuff. They can't tell you that it hurts. Something completely fixable, but then they pass from it. Me sitting here with a grin thinking I love my best friend Anna. I love you. Are you talking about me? Oh, I know. I think they meant autistics as statistics with autism.

[00:31:57]Anna said it's strange enough that nearly everyone born after 89 has some form of it. Yeah. Okay. So, I want to say this. It's so popular that having abnormal thought patterns, being autistic is basically normal. It's weird how it both exists. Obviously, yet it's hard to really put a complete definition on it because there are so many signs and forms of it. It's hard to tell people who don't have it. The hardest part is watching them get exploited, especially in politics. Rhett, I agree.

[00:32:16]Okay. And I'm not I think they can be so brilliant and great, but like when it comes to a lot of like the the gender identity stuff especially, it breaks my heart. But that's a that's a whole other topic. Bernard Rimland, he's known as the father of autism. for anybody that discredits any environmental causes or just like an uptick in it. Bernard Rimland was the first psychologist, I think, to say, "Look, this isn't just cold refrigerator parenting." Okay? Cuz his son was born with it. And he's like, "My wife didn't do this to our son." And he said, "There's a difference between environmentally induced autism and classic autism. Classic is where you're like born with it." And whatever a parent, you say your kid was born that way, you could tell from day one he was different. I'm going to believe you. he or she, I'm I'm going to believe you. If you say it it happened the day of something else and right before your eyes, I'm going to believe you cuz once again, it's a group of symptoms. It's, you know, we're labeling a group of symptoms. There's no blood test for it.

[00:33:13]There are some conditions like Rhett syndrome, like um there's fragile X.

[00:33:19]There's a few genetic markers that often people on the spectrum, but not all. Not nearly all. And uh what about this guys?

[00:33:28]I was at a conference with moms. Every one of us, every one of our autistic child children had a negative blood types. Explain that to me. And that's the kind of stuff they're not going to like. And I understand you don't want to freak everybody out and be like a negative equals autism. Um, and if it wasn't such a horrible thing to be a little different, like we're still in the dark ages in so many ways. Like, yeah, we don't send our differently aabled people up to the attic to live their whole lives, but in the same We're still pretty like, you know, abbleist.

[00:34:03]I love you, Anna. I hope you're still here. Everyone has a disorder these days, especially the ones who search endlessly and self-dagnose themselves and then live a life of self- diagnosis.

[00:34:11]Yeah, I do understand. Once again, I understand both sides. I understand people are like, "Don't put a label on it." But sometimes you need a label to get help. Sometimes when you don't know what's going on and somebody tells you and then you can do some research, find community and realize, oh, that is why I've always struggled with this or that, I think that's great, but it should be to move forward in life, right? It shouldn't be to sit there and use it as an excuse for literally everything that happens in your life. Like, um, I do understand that red cruel that autism is one of the most understandable and socially acceptable spectrums. Everything else classified as a spectrum almost immediately gets rejected as being performative marketing. Oh, that's interesting. No, I've been married for 16 years, Wisco.

[00:34:55]Yeah, it it is pretty crazy when you think about what else.

[00:35:02]A cancer diagnosis can be like that. You know, there's like stages, but it's all cancer. You know, a lot of people are just like dismissive of it.

[00:35:13]It's not as serious. And it's like, yeah, well, once you go through it. So, there's this guy, Autistic AF, here on YouTube. I don't like him or his channel. I know that sounds mean, but he's one of those places like I went, he made a great video on ABA therapy. Great video about like the history of ABA and everything cuz if you don't know a you have a child on the spectrum, they'll give you like an hour of speech, an hour of occupational a week, and then they'll give you like eight hours of ABA and it's like a hit or miss. We never had an ABA therapist that we really like. But I'm not trying to say that all ABA therapy is bad, but a lot of it is literally training them with cheese puffs. You get a Costco size bar bottle of cheese puffs and you give it to them like as a reward, like training a a dog.

[00:35:58]And I I know for some situations that might be the only thing that you you might have to do that at first to get certain habits formed, but in my opinion, I I don't think that that should be pushed on every child. Some people, it's like a job. Some autistic kids, some kids on the spectrum, I'm sorry, I'm trying to I'm trying to say like on the spectrum, they go home from school and have three, four, five, six hours with an ABA there. Put this there.

[00:36:25]Put this there. Put this there. It's like it gets on my nerves. I can't.

[00:36:30]Okay. I And now once again, I'm not trying to So, he had a great video that was like informative and it's like you can get this certificate in 18 months.

[00:36:38]You speech therapist, occupational therapists have given me so much. I'm sorry. A good speech therapist like know so much about the human body. I've never An ABA therapist said that she was going to put my son in a trash can. You don't do this. I'm going to put you in that trash can. That's the kind of they learn in 18 months. Certificate.

[00:36:56]Anyways, now I'm going on a tangent. He made this video basically making fun of the stages of autism. He's one of these high functioning adults. Okay, now I'm going to say stuff I regret. I should probably go. [laughter] He's one of these people that got diagnosed in adulthood and wants to like be it's me me. Anybody who isn't a full-fledged professional on the spectrum is intellectually disabled and not really autistic. That's his thing. He doesn't I learned from his channel a lot of adults that have been diagnosed they don't want to be associated with people like my son which I think is funny after being in hours of probably hundreds of hours of therapy centers I've seen people all once again you see one person on the spectrum it's one person on the spectrum there people are different and complicated and their abilities and everything you might think somebody's non-verbal and you know can't speak they play the piano more beautifully than anybody else you've ever seen in your life and that's the kind of thing that's That's what is the saddest is people trying to force people to be normal.

[00:37:59]Wisconsin in the house. Anna said R is a parents that exploit their kids by putting them on video. It doesn't matter if they have an issue or not. They use their kids for likes just like she's doing right now.

[00:38:08]How Anna is her name Anna too. Anna, I think you need to get your eyes checked. If you're seeing children in my video because there's no children. I don't know if you saw a chicken. You're mistaken. But no, there's no children in my videos.

[00:38:28]So, anyways, somebody had a free food pantry. I'm going to repeat this and I'm going to start planting some seeds. I'm going to go. Somebody had a free food pantry. She makes videos on a regular basis and literally six times in a row, six videos in a row talked about how somebody took a plastic basket and she just is like beside herself over a plastic basket when she got this shed built. You know, a lot of us we we couldn't afford a shed. And I'm like, I think that's awesome. What if everybody that had extra money every month did what she did? There would be no or there'd be a lot less need. Right.

[00:39:01]Right. But like one reason why they get turned off is things like I've seen a lot of those little free libraries and things get like vandalized, you know, and that's such a shame. I couldn't imagine if you went through the trouble of doing that and then came and like, you know, I've seen like glass doors be broken and like it's such a shame. And community gardens in Louisville, they almost always get, you know, um, cue the racists. I know what you racists are thinking. You can save it. And um anyways, but cancer is quite the clear definition. Anna, that's only part of it. From what I see, Rhett said, "Sometimes we just don't want to put it in the square hole." R said, "Oh, that's a horrible teacher trying to put your kid in a trash can. Are you kidding me?"

[00:39:43]Na, it was a ABA therapist. Yes. And we literally got up and left. I went and told her boss about it. And then the next appointment we had, the boss let her take me in a room, just the two of us. She's like, "Can I talk to you?" And it was like the two of us in a conference room. And she was basically like, "Yeah, I didn't really say what you think I said." Like, she tried to deny that it happened at all. And I was just like, "Oh, okay, whatever." Like I Why would I get up and leave? And you you said you were going to put him in a trash can. He takes things very literally. That kid really did think the way he looked at me, I was like, "Uh uh, like he really did think he was about to go in a trash can." Anyways, um, once again, there's amazing just like everything else, right? There's great therapists. There's therapists that are worth their weight in gold. I wish I could pay them $1,000 an hour. Then there's people like that that like it's a certificate you get. That's not to say all ABA therapists are bad. There are good ones. But I'm saying you can tell it's a certificate you get in 18 months, okay? Compared to the people that like have master's degrees in speech pathology and literally like this one was like he's not moving his tongue right when he chooses food. I'm like see and we got these special utensils that really did help a lot. Like I would have never I didn't know how a tongue was supposed to move when you chew food, you know, and we just honestly we kind of lucked out with that. Um the older we all get, the more I realize how we really lucked out with the first occupational and speech therapist that we had. Hi from Ireland. How are you?

[00:41:11]I'm doing good. Bradley, how are you?

[00:41:13]The one thing we are best at as autistics is this thing called Jeopardy.

[00:41:17]That's so funny. Rhett.

[00:41:19]Yes, two Anna. That's not me in the chat. Yeah, Anna. Rhett. Just weird. My mother always liked like in Yeah. Oh gosh. Gosh, if anybody's just like listening, when I was telling that to Anna about my kid, we weren't talking about the cool Anna. Just weird. My mother always like, "Oh my gosh, somebody's driving by. This is the first time somebody's driving by. I don't like it." Just weird. My mother always and they're going like super Okay, it's the neighbor. I was like, why are they going so slow? Just weird. My mother always liking learning about autism, too. Watching Rainman. That's so funny. My dad did that, too. My dad loved that movie because that was out, you know, when he was writing books and stuff and so it was a great example. Um, he's a a savant. A lot of people, you know, can't count how many toothpicks fall on the floor in a split second and stuff like that. But I Okay, so like my 9-year-old, he like was gifted musically. I feel like I didn't do enough. Like if he could get music lessons by somebody that I think he could develop more skills, you know, he can like play Mary had a little lamb and stuff after you show him like once. Um, how refreshing it is to see a naturally beautiful woman on here.

[00:42:28]Oh, thank you, Paul. Yes, I'm so natural. I talk about my facial hair from my PCOS. But yeah, and just keep in mind if somebody does something that you don't like, you are wondering why did they do that? Like there could be so many reasons why their brain functions differently. And I just think in this instance when you have a free food pantry and somebody takes something out that that says everything in here is free. I don't understand why that's a really hard concept to grasp. And then sometimes I'm like, okay, so this happened years ago. My son at Trader Joe's was not doing anything to anybody.

[00:43:05]He was just flapping his arms, you know, and a grown man called him a Like he wasn't like you like that. But he was like like under his breath. And I was like wow I'd much rather be me and be more accepting of people and not be annoyed. That little he wasn't touching him. He wasn't in his personal space. He wasn't even like moving around a lot. I can understand that being a little unnerving. Like this little kid like flying around you like a fly or whatever. [laughter] Like the Mexicans let their kids in Walmart.

[00:43:38]Not all of them but a lot of them. And like I can understand, but that wasn't the case. He's standing in one spot flapping his arms and like whatever's going on in that man's life to make him want to call somebody a name for just moving their body in such a way so they don't feel like they're on fire because that's how it's been explained to me by people on the spectrum. I've seen other people explain like when you stem it's because like you will feel bad inside if you don't. And anyways, I mean like I said mine are kind of like involuntary my ticks but it's the same thing. It's like if I force myself to stop, it would just feel like creepy crawly icky bad.

[00:44:14]Do you believe your Bible is God's perfect word? Yes or no? No, Leroy, I don't. I do believe in the Bible had lots of lessons to teach people, but I mean, I know that it was written by a group of men. And did you guys know the King James version was translated by like this clergy? It was like a few dozen people and we don't know who. We don't know who wrote what. I just think that's super duper interesting. And I have a plain English version of the Bible. I tell myself every month, I'm like, I should read that. Um, but my girl suffers from PCOS. In fact, her cancer just returned. Rhett, I'm so sorry to hear that. Um, I'm so sorry, Rhett. I hate that. Hi, Holden. That's nice.

[00:44:59]Hi, King. How are you? Oh, Corso, we love Mastiffs. King Corso. I was just watching a Corso compilation. It was so freaking cute. It was so Oh my gosh, they are funny. Devil worshippers and KJV was written, but James delves into the dark arts as well, Anna said. So, what do you think is the best version of the Bible? Anna holding the gold. It's um Yeah, Holden. So, yeah. Okay, I think I made my point. And once again, everybody's allowed to have their own opinions, but it would be nice if like I could when I die, people aren't so judgmental and mean, right? Um, just keep in mind that if somebody does something that you don't agree with, this is one thing I like about Wikah.

[00:45:48]Okay, somebody else just drove by. It's so embarrassing. Oh my gosh, I can't wait till my plants have grown up and nobody can see me in here. Uh number one rule at least the the books I read was like um don't harm yourself or anybody else. And if if somebody's not harming themselves or anybody else do it, you know, like whatever like live and let live kind of thing like as long as nobody's being harmed, right? And that's how I feel in this situation. If somebody wasn't hurt, it's a plastic basket that's easily this woman. Okay, I'm just saying more details to give it away. She's a lawyer. Obviously, she can afford these things. And I think once again, I think that's great. But then it's it just reminds you of like even when somebody is bending over backwards for their community, they have a line.

[00:46:35]What is that line? Apparently hers was a plastic basket. And [laughter] um wow. Uh but yeah, I I was kind of just waiting for somebody to reply back to me. Just just one because we all want to be heard. Just one person be like, "Yeah, that is a good point." Um, not necessarily the channel owner, but yeah, of course. I'm hoping that she's like, "Yeah." Um, Rhett says, "Got to have a lot of stuff cut out of her. Hurts to watch because I saw the same thing happen to my mother 45 years ago and it completely destroyed her will." Oh, I'm so sorry, Rhett. Oh, that is awful. I know surgery is no joke. I'm so sorry, Rhett.

[00:47:12]The only thing that really helps in times like these is knowing, you know, like I mean, I don't know if it helps you, but we're all here temporarily and I know that like acute health situations are the worst. Cancer is the devil. Like, it seriously is the evil in this world.

[00:47:31]Where's your high school graduation taking place, Miss? Even as I feel I'm getting cut by her in regards to the types of guys she likes hanging around her, I still feel the need to snuggle and protect her and just overall be there. It's hard to do. Oh, Rhett, I'm so sorry. She sounds it sounds like she's going through so much. Um, not to make excuses, but somebody that feels like they have something, you know, that might shorten their life early, they may act differently than they would otherwise. You know, I feel God in my soul and I've learned a lot. I've learned oft things in all things I believe. All things I do think the Ethiopian version is more spot on in the books of Enoch and such. Thanks for saying that, Anna. My ex is from Kentucky, J Manson.

[00:48:07]Well, I hope that uh you're doing good now. G man, it was so funny. Okay, I I need to go. Um it's actually my husband's day off work. I want to do a members only live today. We were out doing delivery till I was going to go live last night and we we didn't get home till 11:00 cuz we do gig work and it was fun kind of like doing it with my husband. We don't usually do that. You know, I do Instacart, he does Walmart, but we went out together and um yeah, it's interesting the things people order an hour before Walmart closes in uh you know, and then they live like a half hour from the store. We're in a sweet spot where because things are so rural, you will actually get like 20, 30, $40 offers a lot of times. If we lived in near Louisville or Lexington, everything would be like under 10. I'm not kidding. That's it. But like things are a lot closer usually. Uh but yeah, it's it's just insane. Better than ever.

[00:49:06]Jeep said, "That's good. It was nice catching up a bit. Sorry if I brought No, Red. No. Everybody's welcome to say whatever they need to get off their chest here." You know, I don't believe in I don't like that term trauma dumping. It's like this whole world is so hard. I myself I feel like people like and I you know I don't bring up my issues every single chance I get but when you do and you feel like that like somebody I just don't want to hear it.

[00:49:30]It's like that same mentality. I've seen this said a lot when I ask somebody how are you and they ask me how are you and it's just so fake. I don't care how they are and I know they don't care how I am and I'm like that's not true though.

[00:49:40]Like some people really do care and that's what I feel like here in Kentucky. like people genuinely care about other people and it's like becoming like a lost art or something.

[00:49:52]Uh Re, I remember you and I'm glad you filled us in because I too was wondering how you were doing. Anna said, "That's so nice, Anna. I wouldn't move from Kentucky for any amount of money." Me either, Jay. I was in tears and I know it's probably like had something to do with my womanly cycle, but like I was driving through the country and it's just so All seasons are beautiful here.

[00:50:10]Even in the dead of winter, there's still like a lot of green and like um it's just not like that in other states I've lived. And it it was like as much as we're struggling like everybody, right? Everybody's behind. Um like I'm talking about on bills and everything to be in this beautiful place really to feel like you were meant to be where you live. I wish that for everybody. I think if more people, whatever that is, some people that is a city, you know, I'm not saying everybody needs to live in the countryside, but uh yeah, I do think a lot more people would be happier than they realize if they lived rurally. I hate that word.

[00:50:51]Uh the snow is beautiful here in Kentucky. You have snow, Jay. I feel God is punishing me at the same time. I need to keep striving to strengthen my relationship with him. Yes, Rhett. um try to look at everything is a lesson.

[00:51:05]You know what I mean? Like everything good or bad is to teach you something.

[00:51:11]And all the bad things like really the older I get the more like I said with my health issues. Yeah. I have days where the pain's so bad I can't stand because of my hernas. I have three hernas if you didn't know. But then I have days where no pain at all. Nothing. None of them hurt at all. And so I'm like gosh there's some people that have such bad health conditions. Like one of my bad days is like every single day to them.

[00:51:34]And like that's that's crazy to me that anybody lives with that amount of pain.

[00:51:39]And yeah. Um uh she also said she already had a bad vision about something happening precisely today, a week ago. Red said I don't know if she has anything going on today like any procedures or something, but I hope that's not that's so sad. Any black bears in them there woods? Not that we know of. Smooth. There's no resident bears. Um but it's funny.

[00:52:00]There's like resident bears in like all the counties around us. So, I don't know how that works. I I there's like a lot of farmland around here. That might be one reason why there's like less We had one neighbor tell us uh two years ago there was a bear one time, but we don't put our trash in cages. Like some like if you go like an hour or two east in Kentucky, everybody has to put their trash in a big cage. Um there was a tornado last night in Williamstown, Kentucky. Oh, I didn't know that, Jay.

[00:52:27]Oh, I got woke up and I was like about to come out here and check on my seedlings because I had them under this little greenhouse and I was like, "Oh my goodness, they're fine. They didn't move at all." But it was loud. We have a metal roof which I love, but you know, it also kind of We have all those trees.

[00:52:47]That's another thing I need to start making money so we can get the trees trimmed above. you know, it's like $3,000 and um yeah, that's probably going to be our next tax return. Imagine good things for people.

[00:53:00]That's really nice, Merina. Yes, I think that that is huge. And I'm going to imagine that this lady with the free pantry uh gets over it for her own sake. You know what I mean? Like, so you don't dwell on the actions of other people.

[00:53:18]And yeah. Okay. I don't know if I'm not exp I think you guys probably understand where I'm coming from. It's just weird to me you could be so generous but then draw the line at a plastic basket. I think that that says a lot about a lot reminds me of when the lady was calling the churches asking for formula and like most 75% of churches said no. All the mosques all the Muslim mosques said yes without hesitation either. They [laughter] and the people that did say yes like you know um they were the same way with the Christian churches. But it's just like people put on this front.

[00:53:51]America is so we're so narcissistic. I don't mean that about all of you watching if you're Americans, but like as a country, they've tried to make us little narcissists that only care about ourselves. I'll never forget this. I know that large man abroad. I love his channel, but he did. He said, "Nobody will starve in our country." He said this like six months ago. He's like, "Nobody will starve in our country because we have so many churches." And I was like, "Excuse me, that's not true because I've been a family in need." And they like shame you when you ask for help. They really do. And I was just asking for food. I wasn't And not that there's anything wrong with asking for help with the utility bill or anything, but I'm just saying I wasn't even asking for money. Come here. Come here. It's my cat.

[00:54:33]Well, well, now you have to say hi. You came over here. Come here, big buddy.

[00:54:39]Oh, you're getting bigger. We free him.

[00:54:42]Say hi.

[00:54:45]Token is his name. Token has a squy left eye like his love. [clears throat] Mr. Boston is waiting, girl. Oh my god.

[00:54:55]So I can get his comments when he leaves them. I just hearted a comment he left on my YouTube studio, but it's not popping up on my chats. What is going on?

[00:55:05]Google.

[00:55:07]Um, it's chundula flowers. Smooth. A bunch of yellow colundulas is my picture.

[00:55:14]He is the best. He Okay, so we have a shed that's like pretty gross. Like I didn't want to put like my Christmas totes back in because there's so much mouse poo on stuff that we do have in there. And then my husband was cleaning it out and he was like there's barely any mouse poo now. Like compared to before he was out there. I know it's kind of gross. I'm like all over him. It grosses me out. But I can't help it.

[00:55:37]Usually I don't put my face like in his face like He is neutered. Yes. Um, I wouldn't let my when we got him, he wasn't and we got him neutered right away. He was an outdoor cat and like we wanted him to be indoors and he did for a year. He stayed indoors for a year. He didn't go outside once for a year and then he started to go outside again. We can't keep him out.

[00:55:58]So, but we like I said, we noticed a difference. But I don't love how he kills like birds and butterflies, you know? That's kind of not good. I'm saying he's like part rag doll. He's always been like this. He's There is a problem with um strays way more than like the countryside in Indiana. You don't really see a lot of stray cats here. It's like every town in Kentucky has a stray problem. It it is sad. If I ever could have like a disable income, I think that's one thing I would like to try to do is help people spay and neuter.

[00:56:36]So, like every time it gets freezing cold, it's like below 0 degrees. I'm always worried about all the stray cats.

[00:56:41]It's like, oh, and then and then country boys think it's funny to like shoot them, you know, there's that. There's like people that like look at them as a pest of sorts. But anyways, um like I saw him hunting a bunny. I don't think he got it, but I was like, "Oh my god, token." But then I'm like, "Well, maybe I don't want that bunny around." You know, um you know what I mean? My guardian.

[00:57:04]He is a big beautiful cat. Okay, I love you all's beautiful peace be with you.

[00:57:10]You too, Diane. And the the reason I know everybody's struggling with something, you know, like um autistic or not, like I know everybody has struggles and so when somebody hears of somebody going on and on about this or that, like I do I I once again I'm a centrist. I see both sides of everything. I swear to God. I understand how it can be annoying to have somebody, I have social anxiety and I have this and I don't like the way that tag feels and be like, we all have issues like that. You know, we all do.

[00:57:41]But really try to remember, no, there's a lot of people whose brains are wired so differently and they're not going to be able to put into words cuz it's their normal. They don't know how your brain is. And like there's things like that north, south, east, west that they're they're not going to be able to verbalize to you because even in the moment they don't understand the disconnect that's going on. Sometimes it's a disconnect, sometimes it's not.

[00:58:01]You know, sometimes it's just okay. Like I said, one time I asked my son, "How did you sleep last night?" And he said, "On the bed." [laughter] I'll never get over that. And so when I hear somebody taking a basket from a free food pantry, I think of instances like that, you know? I'm like, "Well, maybe they thought everything was free."

[00:58:20]Like, get over it. I love you guys. And Okay, Sam. I hope you're doing well. Well, I'm going now, Jerry. You can watch it again if you want to. Uh, say bye-bye.

[00:58:32]Say bye-bye.