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 you 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.

Hi, I'm Tony Mantour. Welcome to Why Not Me the World. Today's guest has been on my show before.

Sam Huber. His story was so good and went over so well. I decided that he needed to come back and talk a little more.

Along with him is his father Bob that's joining us because they've got so much to tell us. They've got a

podcast they got a book coming out just so many different things. Welcome to my

show. How are you? Thanks for having us on. Oh it's my pleasure. Well let's start it off this way because we've had so many things to talk about.

When Sam was diagnosed, what were some of the thoughts that went through your mind?

Well, at the beginning of it in a kind of formal diagnostic way was

Dan was in first grade in public school and his first grade teacher in the sticks of

South Jersey and his teacher said when I'm teaching

Sam is kind of looking around he's not about it he's not paying attention he doesn't

quite seem to be there my wife I, who has a background in psychology, got him diagnosed with

AEDD. He was six, so it would have been 1995, mid-90s. Probably guess where him headed. He went on Ritalin, it did help him focus. Our bent

then, our almost mania you could say, probably would was to pull him drag him urge him help him into the

narrow typical world right into doing well at school.

So we, the next year he went to a private Quaker friend school

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