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. Today's guest was diagnosed autistic

a little later in life. Chris Weekly joins us today. Now he's using his autism to help others in the autistic

community. Welcome to the show I really appreciate you coming on. I am extremely

honored for the opportunity to be on your show. Well, thanks. I really appreciate it.

The pleasure is all mine.

So at what age was you diagnosed autistic?

So in my 30s, it really started off as a conversation that I had been avoiding having with my wife.

I've been married 27 years and pretty far along into our marriage she said, look, we may not survive this. So we scheduled

an appointment with our physician,

explains some of what was going on,

was referred to a psychologist,

and then another psychologist,

and then a psychiatrist, and there was all kinds of forms and things to fill out a lot of questions, some of them uncomfortable.

I had a pretty tough childhood.

You know, when you have to go back and kind of relive some of that, it kind of sucks.

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