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 your 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 is Paul Simmons. He is the founder of Autism Radio and

Hope Saves the Day podcast. His stories are going to be stories of inspiration and never giving up.

And I'm just so happy to have him on our show.

Thanks for coming on, Paul.

No, thank you.

So tell us a little bit about autism radio and hope saves the day. So autism radio, and Hope Saves the Day.

So Autism Radio actually started in 2010.

That's kind of when we became a non-profit 501c3 organization.

Hope Save's Day, which is our podcast.

That started in 2007, actually,

when podcasting was very, very early on.

Again, just, you know, it was sitting on the couch,

had surgery, recovering from surgery, and was thinking about

there was an organization called Kozak at the time which is now autism New Jersey and we got to go to some support groups which were really grassroots support groups and got some great information and honestly we felt not so alone right I mean I think that was the big thing for me was just having some other parents that we could talk to that have been through, you know, the diagnosis of autism and actually

had kids that were even, you know, almost teenagers at the time, so they were dealing with it much, much longer than we were.

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