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.

Hi, I'm Tony Mantour. Welcome to Why Not Me the World. Today's guest is a certified autism specialist. She has extensive experience in coaching, mentoring, and advocating for individuals on the autism spectrum.

She has a background in law, professional coaching certifications, and she has a holistic approach to autism coaching.

She has a business called coaching with Uzma and I am just so honored to have Uzema with us today.

So thanks for coming on the podcast. Thank you so much for

having me Tony. Oh the pleasure is all mine. Before we started this we were

talking about how confusing it is for parents who just find out that their

son or daughter is autistic.

Can you expand on that a little bit on how it affected you with your son?

My son's, he just turned 14 and in the beginning like you said I was a parent who was confused, looking for a solution,

looking for a quick fix, but I didn't know where to go and who to go to.

And then when I did go and turn to professionals, and back then I was in the UAE, we just recently moved to the UK. I've been away for 14 years from the UK and just returned.

And when we got back, sorry, when I was there and I was looking for this answer, I couldn't find a professional who could actually nail it down and said, this is what it is, because there was so many challenges on a daily basis with my he's my

eldest so I couldn't compare him to to his siblings because he didn't have any

siblings at the time and then yeah and I just I really was wondering what to do and I

would often you know I would often try to seek help through

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