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Having A Disability Doesn't Mean You're Broken · The Autistic Mile

Jim Gaffney: that's one of the lines I like to use. sometimes you have a disability and are disabled. people like ourselves, high functioning autistic adults, yeah, we have a disability, but we're not disabled. you know, we're fully functional, we have good skill sets. and we really wanna bring that to the world actually, to different audiences and we want to foster understanding. you know, although people know about autism, like I said, you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn't know about autism these days. We wanna further that understanding, especially in schools and workplace environments, because as I've said before, the autistic children of today are the autistic adults of tomorrow. so we have to kind of keep pushing the envelope in terms of understanding and training to make sure that the needs of this growing workforce and this growing population are met not only privately but in other settings corporate settings, school settings. So we want to continue to do our part to kinda push the conversation and push our advocacy in that area.