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 Matur. Welcome to Why Not Me the World. Today's guest is Katie Griswold. She is joining me live in the studio, and not only that that she's the first episode for April which everyone

knows is autism awareness and acceptance month she has such a great story

she's part of the Miss Georgia pageagentry. There's just so many things

that we're going to talk about and I'm really glad to have her here. Thanks for

joining me, Katie. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure and it's great to

have you in the studio here with me today.

So let's start off with at what age was you diagnosed as autistic?

I was diagnosed when I was eight years old.

Okay, so you're eight years old just diagnosed autistic. What

went through your mind and what did you have to do to adapt? It was definitely

something I had to adapt to mostly. I was new to the whole autistic thing and to me I kind of

felt like I had a target on my back more since I was being bullied a lot and it just affected me more.

Most people tell me that they get bullied primarily at the public school.

Is that where you was getting most of your abuse?

Yes, I definitely got it from the public school.

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