Welcome to Why Not Me The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.

Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as our guests tell us their stories.

Some will make your laugh, some will make you cry. Real life people who

will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.

Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,

and a better understanding for autism around the World. Today's guest is very

present. He is a leading expert on autism, an accomplished author, and his

accomplishments are just too numerous to mention.

You can easily find out more about him by searching his name online.

I am very thrilled that he could join us today, so thanks for coming on. Sure, my pleasure.

So can you share with us what drew you to get into autism research?

Um, well, if I could start with how I got involved with autism,

I actually started out as a teenager working in residential summer camps

for people with disabilities.

Okay.

And I always like to say that was about the same year I went to Woodstock.

Okay.

I started out working on the ground with people being responsible for their welfare, their

happiness, their happiness,

you know, we lived with the kids.

I did that for six years actually.

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