Welcome to the Wire Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children.

I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it.

Eric Zimmerman from the Buddy Project coming back for part two of your interview.

Last time we talked about friendships and behavior and school and how your experience

all those things as an autistic adult.

And today we're going to talk about your love story and how you met

your amazing wife. So are you ready? Yes. All right, let's do it. So how I met my wife,

I had a connection to South Africa, a previous, I guess, love interest who I met through a dating site. She was four weeks from

going home from South Africa. So she was really interested in me. I was really interested in

her. She was interested in my work. So we ended up meeting up and it didn't quite she went home you know four

weeks later and we hit we hit it off very well but she went home and because she went home

she was there and I was here in the United States and I was like okay yeah I don't think that you know

it's likely to work out I'm not there's no way I'm going to South Africa I've never even been

out of the country and so anyhow I'm seeing another girl but in the being, but I was writing my e-book and called

Anything But Ordinary.

And I was writing that, and I needed someone to do a book cover.

And I knew that this person in South Africa knew how that she was a graphic designer.

So she was here as an O-Pair, but she went back home and I knew she knew graphic design.

So I asked her, I said, do you, can you help me with this?

And she said, sure, and so she wanted to read it.

So she read the copy and it was being edited and she helped edit it.

And she's like, this is amazing. I can't wait to read more. And I was like, well, you can accept

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