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What's your why for getting into it?

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Is it just your son or is there more to that?

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There is a little more to it.

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I was a facilitator at the time that I had him and everything.

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And like I said, he wasn't diagnosed until around the age of three or four.

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And I think my why was really more of an introspective moment

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because ultimately what I started to realize in the company was

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we would have people in training, they would struggle,

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they would leave, they would do all of these things.

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And at some point it became a, well, they just can't cut it kind of thing.

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And so we never really looked outside of that into a place of,

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you know, maybe it's something we're doing.

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And for me, it really became a moment when I had him and all the things were happening

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and he was not meeting milestones and we had some suspicions of autism that,

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no, the problem is us.

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And in a lot of ways, the problem is me.

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And that was a very hard thing to really sit with.

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Like that is a difficult thing for anybody to sit with.

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Now, the problem is me because I'm looking at it through a very neurotypical lens.

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I'm looking at it through almost a selfish lens in some ways.

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And for me, the why really became or really was stemming from that moment of,

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no, the problem is us and we should be better and we can do better.

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And in life, I was raised, if you know better, you do better.

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I'm from an army family.

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So essentially, it's if you know that there's something that needs to be done,

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if you know you can do better, go do better.

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And I mean, just all of that together really became my life.

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Absolutely. It's a crazy jump to take.

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And I feel like everybody has that problem whenever it comes to seeing if what is the issue,

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if the problem is within yourself or if the problem is outside something you can work with or try and work around.

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But if the problem is within yourself, a lot of times people will hit that mental wall.

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They're like, no, how am I the problem? I'm never the problem.

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I'm perfect in my own eyes. And people a lot of times hit that.

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So congratulations on hitting that wall and saying, OK, we need to figure out a way to work around this because I am the problem here.

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I congratulate you on that.

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Yeah, it's a hard moment.

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But I think in business and in life, we've got to get past that if we can,

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because it really does hinder a lot of progress for ourselves and for others, really.