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started. Welcome Ben Blackman to the Autism-A-D-D podcast.

Thanks for joining me today.

Today we're going to talk about a dad's perspective.

And so you have two boys.

Tell us about your boys.

So my older son, Jase, who is going to be a senior this fall in high school, and he's a guy.

He's a guy.

Some days he's pretty nice, and some days he's just not.

I hear that.

You know, and then my other son, Evan, who does go to high school in the CDC A class that they have,

he's 16.

He'll be technically a sophomore, I guess, next year.

But that's his name's Evan.

So tell me about your journey when noticing that something might be a little bit different about Evans' development.

Well, what I usually tell people is that, you know, he was doing just fine, you know, typical stuff.

And over time, when he was, you know, around two, right in that area, right, he seemed to be talking less and spending more time like laying his head on the ground and playing with the train back and forth and that kind of thing.

And part of the reason I thought that he was talking less was because his brother

talked so much.

I figured Evan just couldn't get a word in, you know, kind of thing.

But, you know, it didn't occur to me that there was something going on.

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