Welcome to Why Not Me The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mante the World Podcast,

hosted by Tony Manteur.

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 born in India,

moved to England 20 years ago, has an autistic daughter, and has recently written a book.

I am pleased to welcome Faria Arsh.

Hi, thanks for having me. I was just listening to your podcast and and your

introduction as well and it is absolutely amazing. I'm really really learning so much

from all of it. Thanks so much for your kind words.

I really appreciate it.

So you is telling me that you have an autistic daughter.

Could you tell us a little bit about her?

So my daughter who is 15 years old, she is called Afia. I started to realize

that there's something missing because I've got another daughter, Pfizer, who's

18 years old now and And because Alfie was my second child, I knew the milestones. And I could see that there was something missing, and when I say something missing, it was basically interaction.

So Alfie wasn't interested in any interaction.

Whatever babbling she was doing at the age of eight months

that had stopped by, she was 12 months old old so I was getting concerned that there is

something missing here. So at that point what options were you thinking of? So I

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