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Autism and Family Relationships: Brant Hansen

FamilyLife Today®

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Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Christianity, Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Love someone with autism? Autistic radio host Brant Hansen offers real-life pointers for parents and spouses of those on the spectrum.

But when you're socially trying to figure out the lay of the land, and it makes no sense to you, it can be really difficult, and I just want to say, “better days are ahead.” I promise you, it gets better; and it gets better not when you're 40, but a lot before that. It gets gradually better and better.-- Brant Hansen

Show Notes and Resources

Connect with Brant on Twitter @branthansen or on Facebook @branthansenpage.
Learn more Brant on his website: branthansen.com
Listen to Brant and Sherri's podcast: Brant and Sherri Oddcast
And grab his book, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something
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0:00.0

So who's your favorite character on the chosen besides Jesus? Of course. I don't know the actors

0:05.6

Everybody do you think a lot of our listeners have watched the chosen? I'm guessing I would encourage him to and we're not saying that the chosen is

0:12.8

Scripture like you know don't send us emails. Yeah, but yeah

0:16.1

We've really really enjoyed it and one of my favorite characters is Matthew. Yep. Why he is for you too? Oh, yeah

0:23.0

First I was like

0:25.0

He's quirky, you know, and I didn't read it that way in the gospels

0:28.8

But then when you watch you're like I could see why they decided to play in that way

0:33.8

Yeah, but they could have done that. Yeah, why you because he's just so unique

0:37.6

He sees the world in a different way

0:40.0

He doesn't take the same social cues that the others take and I find him fascinating

0:53.6

Welcome to family life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most

0:59.9

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at familylifetoday.com or on the family life app

1:08.0

This is family life today

1:10.0

We have Matthew in the studio today

1:24.6

Disciple Matthew showed up. Now we have Brad Hansen back with us who is also a man on the spectrum and

1:31.4

Very popular radio host author and one of our best friends. We love having you in the city

1:36.5

Man, that is an honor. I mean, did you think the same thing when you watched Matthew on the chosen?

1:41.9

I loved that I had listeners and people tell me you got to see this show like there's a guy who's on the spectrum

1:47.9

One of the disciples, and I just like that's so great. Were you surprised? Yeah, and I don't know how it happened

1:54.4

I I wound up talking to Dallas Jenkins about it for like an hour. We did like an interview

1:58.4

But it's just about that you see how I just named her up. Yeah, I want to I'm so intrigued

2:03.5

I don't one of the things about being on the spectrums. I don't smooth

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