Dr. Tina J. Ramsey
Appearances
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So that's what I have been doing personally in order to kind of for the parents that are afraid to ask. For the parents that are a little embarrassed to ask, I see the questions or they may reach out to me privately. And then I'm like, OK, so a lot of parents probably have the same question. I don't put their names. I just make it a question. We answer the question.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And then I bring people like lawyers to come in and answer those questions of well-being for your child, banking, all the different things that sometimes you don't even know to ask, to be honest with you. You don't even know to ask. And so I bring those people because it's not just about me at the end of the day.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
It's about everyone that I know or meet that I see that can bring value to this community. So I don't know everything. I wish I did, but I don't. And so I just bring people together. And like right now, coming on your amazing podcast and sharing my journey, because I'm actually sharing more of my journey with you than I ever did before.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So I was like, it's time to let a little bit more out, you know, just a little bit more. Because when I'm in public, on public stages, I share a whole lot, but not interviews. So I was like, okay, I like your spirit. I'm going to come on and share a little bit more, you know.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I 100% agree. And I'm at the place in my life where I went through most of the phases that most parents haven't reached yet. I feel like with having the experience that I have from having a child go from point one to point two and then to the finish line, because the finish line is at least getting them through high school. Of course, they can go to college.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Oh, FYI, this just popped up in my head. If your child do want to go to college and because my child has dyslexia. Okay. He has all the D's, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia. I mean, he has all of them, right? Just different levels of it. And so one thing that I would like parents to know is that the law protects your child and also provide resources.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So I went to school because I really wanted to be a child care provider. That's what I wanted to go to school for. But once I went to college, I changed my mind and I said, I want to do childhood development with the specialty of special needs and, you know, learning psychology and sociology and all that good stuff like that. And so that's what I end up going to school for. And I just love that.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So say, for example, your child is dyslexic and they learn better with audio. They have a difficult time comprehending reading. You can actually go to the college and say, hey, my child, he wants or she wants to go to college. They're going to need some assistance. Just in the curriculum to provide them with audio books or video textbooks. They do provide audio and video textbooks when necessary.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And for students that have difficulty processing information, reading it themselves, they can read, but they don't comprehend as good. they can request that their child has a person read the test to them and they answer the questions verbally.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So there's so many things that if parents only knew, because they may worry about, you know, my child won't be able, I know they're smart, but I know that they have to get their information a certain type of way. There are schools that will, and colleges that will actually assist with that. And there are schools, if your child is very nervous about test taking,
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
There are colleges that set them in without an SAT, without the scores. OK, there are so many different avenues and so many advantages that we have in now that we did not have 10, 20 years ago because people are more aware of all these different things that are happening now. They may not be as vocal with it at the colleges now. Yeah.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And so I just want to tell them that just in case they're feeling like, oh, I can't. And they have assistance, financial assistance for your baby. Ask the questions. My child got a full ride scholarship, took a whole coding class, eighteen hundred dollars. So I'm just saying ask questions because no child left behind is your best friend.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
My hardest fear when I first got the diagnosis was the same thing that I studied in school, that I knew that it was not logical. It wasn't rational. I was like, what did I do? Was it something that I didn't take? I did exactly what the textbook said. So my worstest fear was like, what can I do to make sure that his life can be as full as possible? And I was afraid.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
that I would mess up, afraid that I would mess up, especially when I decided to homeschool. Okay, this is on me. And my fear now, actually my fear was, will he be able to work at a job? You know, will it be a job that he can actually take care of himself? And yes, they are. You know, you just have to look for those specialty jobs. But that was then.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And now I guess the next one would be him building a family. I think that would be my next one. Like, OK, because our community is so loving and sometimes the social aspect is not, you know... There are some people that take advantage of the kind hearted nature of our children.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
That is one of my fears, if I had to say it, because he is such a genuine person. And to be honest, there are some heartless, ruthless people in the world.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Yeah, because you do. And even though from an educational standpoint, I knew it wasn't rational or logical because it wasn't anything that I could have done to even cause this. But in my mind, I'm like, what could I have done better if it was what is it that I missed? Because as a parent, you just want your children to be whole. You want your children to be safe.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
love working with the community. And so that's how it initially started. Yeah, that's how it initially started. And I guess I'll tell you a little bit about how my life changed a little bit.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
You want them to just have the best of the best. But then I realized that autism wasn't a disadvantage. I felt it was a disadvantage because of all the stigma associated with it. I thank God for my son now because he opened up a piece in me that I didn't know I had. I'm more empathetic. I see looking through the lenses of his eyes and how he sees the world, how he comprehends the world.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
It just made me look at things differently and make me think because this thought process is totally different from me and his sister and his father. So I would say parents, you're not at a disadvantage because I was the only parent in my friend circle at the time that had a child that was autistic. I often felt misunderstood. I felt judged.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I felt belittled and I felt like I was being judged as a bad parent.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, they can go to ctrhomeschooling.com. That is C, because I know I'm country. That's C as in call, T as in Tom, R as in road, homeschooling.com. You can also see the TV show, CTR Homeschooling TV on CTR Media Network, which streams on Amazon Fire TV, Roku TV. Android TV, iOS app, and Google Play. And it's absolutely free for anyone to watch.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And you can look for that show up on the Homeschooling TV channel.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I want you to look at your boy or your girl that has autism as a window into the heart of humanity. Our children are Have a sense to be able to see the world, experience the world in a way that so-called like normal people, which, you know, the terminology can never experience. They feel different. They touch different. They experience different. I want you to take that time. Observe your child.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I took a whole year and just watched and observed my child, how he looked at flowers. And it also opened me up to be able to be so internally grateful that I have a child with autism. I guarantee that child going to change your life forever and make you a better person for it because my baby made me a better person.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
OK, so it impacted me in the way that I saw that it was a breakdown of communication between the parents and the administrators and the child with their parents and then the parents. I mean, and then the child with the teachers. And mostly in the community where I work, which would be children that's on the autism spectrum that had various different learning, I would say, disabilities.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
It's amazing because I have never heard of anyone doing a podcast on a topic that they're not naturally familiar with, number one. And number two, to actually get people to come on that are familiar with the topic, which is a sensitive topic, to speak about autism, to come on and feel comfortable. I have had several people asked me to come on about autism affairs and things.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And I'm like, no, but with you, I was like, I'm coming on this show. I am coming on this show right here. So, I mean, thank you for having me. I really enjoyed it.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I really don't like the terminology. I love learning differences because I just feel like it's just a different way of learning. And so what basically happened, that's how I got into it. And that's how it started changing. And so when I saw that I was kind of like a liaison,
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Because even though I had a nonverbal child, but yet I was able to understand the nonverbal communication that can be understood as being aggressive, not wanting to listen. It was just something that I could read it, right? And I was like, no, they just say they hungry. You know, no, they just say that they don't like that. You know, the sound is too loud, you know?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And so I was that person that the individual would come to. The children felt very comfortable with me. I could calm the children down. And I just realized that I found my way. through the eyes of these beautiful children. And I was just honored that, number one, they trusted me. Number two, I was able to bridge that gap.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Number three, I just love seeing their little eyes light up when they are able to do something new because you figured out the way that they learn. And I'm just thinking about it now, the children that many of the teachers like, oh, they're just a lost cause. I'm like, no, there's no children that's a lost cause. Seeing them do things for the first time, building up their confidence.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I just love it. Yeah. And so that's when I saw I could actually make an impact on my job, you know, when I used to work in a public school system.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I did not have a child that is nonverbal in the beginning. So this is a little interesting. In the beginning, my child was that child that was hitting all the milestones that you're supposed to hit.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
This is the controversial part. My child at 18 months got the 18 month old shots and my whole world changed. My son was literally walking. He was babbling at two months. He was walking by six months. And when he got right about that 18 month old shot, he took all the shots and he started running a fever. And when he ran the fever, he changed. The light behind his eyes went dim.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
He started hitting himself, screaming, not talking anymore, could not walk. Everything just totally changed after these shots. So mine is a little bit different because it wasn't always that way. It just changed after he got those 18-month-old shots. And so here I am, a mother that did all the right things according to the books. And then now I don't know what to do.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And then I'm faced with the dilemma of even though I had all this experience, I must admit it was very hard for me to accept that my child could have a learning difference. It was very, very difficult. I went through denial. I went through anger. I went through disbelief. I tell people it was very hard being on the other side.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Even though I worked with parents 24-7, even though I helped so many families, but now it was me. And I had a very, very difficult time adjusting because it flipped my whole world inside out. And it was something that I didn't prepare for. I never even... thought that this could be me, right? Even though I had all these people, you know, I was like, why me? You know, so it was a little difficult.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So he was nonverbal from the age of, after the 18 month, all the way up to about three and a half years old. And then he wasn't talking that much then. It was maybe, we taught him some sign language, you know, the go to the bathroom, you know, different little things. So we would know, but he didn't really start talking until he was maybe Five, six years old.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, now he's 18.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, it was very difficult because in the beginning, my children was in public school. I have a daughter that is older. My son is the baby. Being that he had a different way of communicating, he really got bullied a lot. My son also have what they call in school medical sensitive. It's just another word of saying your child stays sick all the time. Low immune system.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So we had to deal with him being on different medications, being asthmatic. And then some of the medicine and steroids would interact with his behavior. It was just a lot of different things that kind of like had us in a whirlwind. Due to that, and then he's taken from what they call normal class and put into a controlled environment where everybody know, it just kind of like shifted dynamic.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And he was bullied a lot. He was very sad. He was that child that wanted to have a lot of friends.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, I would say this. We, because like I said, he was in public school for a while. And then around about second grade, we took him out and we homeschooled both of our children. Now he wasn't getting bullied every single day at school, but we had to get used to now homeschooling, making sure he still has socialization, making sure he could still get the training and stuff.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Now we had him in homeschool co-ops and everything like that. Dealing with the teen years. I say is very interesting because what I tell parents is the child that you have when your child is before puberty is not the same child once they hit puberty.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So what worked then with education and all the different things that we did, even with things that he liked, it was like I had a completely different child. OK, and I was like, what am I going to do? And now puberty. And so for us, it was difficult in the beginning. But once we learn his life and I had to sit down with him and have conversations with him about, OK, how are you feeling?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
I put him in this class that actually help you be able to express yourself socially, even though I taught him. But I want him to learn from somebody else to build up his communication skills. And then I put him in situations where he had to communicate with other people. And it helped out a lot. And I also made him very comfortable with it's OK. not to be a people pleaser.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
It's very difficult, even as for an adult. And so I'm happy to say that overall, it started off bumpy, but it ended up, we're calm. We're in the calm. We 18, we're in the calm now.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, he was so happy that he made it through high school. He was like, listen, college is not for me unless, quote, I quote like he does, it's teaching me something that I need to do in order to work the job that I want to work.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So for us, what I did, because many parents don't realize that when your child falls into what the state calls special needs category, they have different things like vocational rehab and different other services that you can put your child in. And they will provide them with a career coach. to be able to help them with resume building, emotions, working with other people.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
They have smaller size workplaces. So they put them in real work environments and teach how to work with people. So that was our next step. So my son is actually working and had a career coach. And then they work with you. And then they work with you to the point where they put you in a real life job.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So it's like simulated work, but then they get you, once you get to the point you pass everything, then they put you in a real job based upon what your interests are. So they ask you what your interests are, and then they look around for businesses that will work with the special needs community. And I'm saying special needs just because that's what we're talking about.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
But I really don't like that terminology. They actually will work with your there are certain jobs that will work with the community. And so we found those places that would fit what he liked. And we have like a caseworker. We have different people that all works on the case with him and also work with him.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So if he does have meltdowns or emotional whatever, we have people on call that can actually be able to help and keep him centered with it.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
One of the main things that I hear a lot of parents say, what am I going to do once they graduate high school? What am I going to do? Because you feel like, okay, I had all the support while they was in public school or their home school. Now I don't have anything, but that's not true.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
There are a lot of board of disabilities, different programming that are catered to young adults to help them be independent as possible, even programs to help them find roommates as to live by themselves, to be independent. So there's so many things. And if we have it over here in the little town of South Carolina, I know they have it in metropolitan cities and everything like that.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
It's going pretty good. No need to complain.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So I would tell parents just to reach out and look for the resources available. But right now he's working. And it's funny because I never thought, right? And it was part of the advocating. I research. I found out a lot of information. I asked questions to provide him with the best that I could do and also finding people that can do even better than what I could do. And so that was the key.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And stop being embarrassed because you don't know certain things. It's okay. Ask questions.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And they're so nervous because you already feel like you're under a microscope anyway. Sometimes they may feel afraid to even ask for certain help because they don't want to be looked at as a neglectful parent. Then why? Oh, you can't afford this or you can't do that. Or why didn't you know this?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And so you have all of these worries in your head because you want the best for your child, but then you don't want... To ask for help if it means that you're looked upon in a different way or it may put your child in a situation where they may be forcibly removed from your home or all kind of different things of the stories that we hear that are not typical.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Good parents are afraid to ask for help because the only comparison they have is the bad situations of which they are not in it. I felt some of those same reservations as well, but not to the point that I didn't do anything. And now I'm one of those parents that can go in and talk on any platform dealing with special needs.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And I'm pretty much that not only a homeschooling advocate, but a mother with a child with autism advocate because of all the things they saw what I did with my child. And they were like, can you come train other parents? And I'm like, I don't. And like create a blueprint or anything. I mean, I can come speak to them.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, as far back as I can remember, I always loved to be a voice for the voiceless. So my mom and dad used to have me doing a lot of volunteer work when I was younger. So I kind of carried on in my adult years. And I just loved the special, I don't really like to say special needs. I like to say learning differences, community.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
And I mean, it's not like I wrote it down like, OK, step one, this is what you do. But yeah, so I'm just I'm just happy because in my mind and compared to what you see, this is not supposed to be the situation. And so I'm just grateful for everything.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
Well, one of the things that I did, well, myself, I was a mother in a community on social media. And then they asked me to come in and co-found the group because I put a lot of information in. At first I said, absolutely no, not, no, but then I said, I just want to give resources. And then later on, I said, yes. And that's been seven years ago.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
community of about 24,000 homeschooling parents over the past seven years. Then I started a magazine that actually addresses all the learning styles and actually bring parents to write their stories about their experiences, as well as connected them with companies and resources to help their children and also give them discounts on educational things, right?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
Dr. Tina J. Ramsey: Transforming Challenges into Advocacy – Navigating Autism with Resilience and Community Support
So I go and talk to different companies and be like, okay, I have a community. OK, I have people that follow me. I have a podcast. I have a TV show. If you're not going to give me anything, can you at least get them 10, 20 percent off, 15 percent off if they use a code? Even if I don't get anything, can you do that? Can you do a giveaway? Sure. So I'm like, OK, so and write blogs.