DR. JERRY AND JENNY MCCARTHY WAHLBERG INTRODUCE HOMELIFE COMMUNITY FOR ADULTS WITH AUTISM
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Eighth Ms Mom |
| 2:00.0 | So home life is you know something that you're working on a place you know to really start developing ways we're gonna handle |
| 2:23.9 | I mean those the numbers you share in there over five million adults or people with autism that will all be moving adulthood as a parent and you know Jenny you can probably share this |
| 2:36.3 | That is the biggest concern when I talk to parents of autistic |
| 2:41.0 | children |
| 2:42.7 | They're like if I die if anything happens to me |
| 2:46.8 | Who's gonna take care of them or my child's aging out? |
| 2:49.8 | I mean a real problem now of being able to be in control their lives |
| 2:53.6 | I don't want them just going to a home where they're gonna tie them to a bed. They've got no concern for them. |
| 2:59.1 | The number one fear I know it |
| 3:02.2 | For parents is I can't die like I my next book was gonna be like I can't die because |
| 3:08.6 | It's the |
| 3:10.0 | Only you know how to care for your child, but then I also thought about like God what about those people that don't have extended family |
| 3:16.5 | After they pass away does their child have to be you know put an institution run by the state |
| 3:23.1 | You know and we have the most vulnerable group. They're so sensitive to so many things and people that I couldn't even imagine it |
| 3:30.8 | And I thought to myself well |
| 3:32.0 | I have to serve in some way and figure out how to create a community where they're safe for these vulnerable kids won't be |
| 3:39.0 | We'll be protected and then Dr. Jerry came to me talking about this idea and I said well this is what I want to do |
| 3:46.0 | And this is what he wants to do and I'm like we were meant to be together |
| 3:50.1 | So here we are and |
| 3:52.4 | So we've got this this |
| 3:54.4 | phenomenal |
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