Jade Olszewski : Autism - A Journey of Acceptance and Empowerment

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?

Tony Mantor

Autism Awareness, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Positivity, Autism, Never Give Up, Special Needs, Entertainment, Celebrities, Autism Acceptance, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Send us a text What if you could look at your differences not as disabilities, but as superpowers? This is the inspiring perspective that our special guest, Jade Olszewski, brings to light. As an artist, energy healer, transformational coach, and mother to an autistic son, Jade has a wealth of wisdom to share about embracing differences and navigating the world of autism. Through her heartfelt journey, Jade takes us from the initial diagnosis when her son was only four, to...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.
0:07.0	Broadcasting from Music City, USA. Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.0	Join us as our guests tell us their stories. Some will make your laugh, some will make you cry. Real life people who
0:28.0	will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.
0:35.0	Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,
0:39.2	and a better understanding for autism around the world.
0:43.0	Hi, I'm Tony Mantork. Welcome to Why Not Me the World. Today's guest, Jade Oshesky, is an artist, an energy
1:00.6	healer, a transformational coach, and most important, she's a mother to an autistic son.
1:07.3	Welcome, Jade, I appreciate you coming on.
1:09.9	Thank you for having me.
1:11.2	Oh, it's my pleasure. So it's my understanding that you have having me. Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:12.6	So it's my understanding that you have an autistic son.
1:15.5	Could you tell us a little bit about him?
1:17.8	Yeah, so he has Asperger's and like AEDD, and I do as well that I didn't realize until you know just like a year ago.
1:28.4	Wow that's pretty interesting. I know a few people that I've taught with that got diagnosed later in life and some that actually got diagnosed because their children got diagnosed and they saw the similarities.
1:38.7	Yeah, yours after he was diagnosed.
1:40.6	So what age was he diagnosed? So he would have been, I think four. How old is he now?
1:47.8	11. So what was he doing or not doing that made you realize you had to get a diagnosis?
1:54.0	So it was interesting. I think part of it was just motherly instinct. I knew he was just
2:00.4	behaving differently than what I saw with like my friends kids and things.
2:06.1	Okay. He was hitting those milestones a little bit later, which I was totally okay with like I know we all have do things in our own timing in our own way but he wasn't really like making eye contact. He would, if there were certain noises he was covering his ears a lot. Things like he would go from like zero to ten real quick and sometimes like it would be really hard to calm him down.
2:36.9	So there was different things like that, but some of it was just, you know, he would line things up in a certain way. I don't know part of it was just I just
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