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Late Diagnosed Touretts And Autism · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  What's going on, guys? It's good to have you here and
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  the subscribe button. All right, so I have a good
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  guest with me today. I always love this kind of
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  segment of the podcast where I get to meet people.
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  So I'm introducing a guest here, William Hardwick, and he has
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  such a lot to say. I'm reading this guy's bio and
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  it's just insane. So we're going to go through it
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  right now. William, would you like to
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  introduce yourself? Good morning.
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  Thank you. Yeah.
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  My name is William. I am a retired educator from
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  California Northern Park. I taught first grade this middle
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  school and elementary school principal.
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  Wow. For the better part of 30 years
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  I live with Tourette's syndrome. I live with bipolar disorder and
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  I've gone through live a lot different than the average bear.
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  My book, The invisible backpack A lot grades is in rhyme, prose.
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  I write rhythmically, completely.
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  It's how I how I deal with my conditions, how I heals, how I
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  deal with the traumas of life. It's in writing.
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  And now I get to share, I get to speak, I get to get back at the
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  educational piece of life and teach again.
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  And they get to teach. 8 billion versus 8000.
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  A way of doing it. It's a way of overcoming
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  judgment, a way of overcoming these conditions that we live
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  with and finding another way other than say, medication.
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  There's so many opportunities. So my life, my goals and my
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  missions are to reach out to people like yourselves and have
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  a conversation and maybe get in depth warrant I'm a visit and
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  hear a story if I can. Dude I love this.
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  That's who I am in a nutshell. So, so tell me dude, like when
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  were you diagnosed with bipolar and Tourette's so.
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  I was born at home. I was in a vegetative state in
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  1965, and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 35 years old with
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  Tourette. Growing up in the 60s and 70s,
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  it wasn't there. Small town America, One doctor.
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  You know, that's a strange. Yeah, I was just a strange
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  group, you know, has a lot to take.
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  Bipolar, not till 54 years old, 55 years old.
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  I've learned a lot about trauma in the last six years of my
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  life, written a ton about it. And I've been in through
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  facilities and I've been in through the big box cure alls.
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  And I have a different way of looking at life and the middle
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  health side of life and autism and anything's Nero challenge
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  the world and challenge the medical world.
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  Now we have to look at things differently.
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  We have to look at as humans and start the hugs not drugs routine
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  and start finding the way. So at 35 they shoved pills down
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  for me. So they gave me Xanax, Risperdal
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  and Ambien about 80,000 of them down my throat to oh, it's to
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  make it better and to made it better for other people.
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  It was miserable. And other people say, well, you
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  are subdued for you. What about me?
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  You know, my energy shouldn't have to be medicated.
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  So yeah, it's 30 baht. And then I did it for about 18
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  years, and at 53, I dealt it all.
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  I decided to take my life back and a lot of things were
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  happening and so I got rid of medication and changed my life
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  again. Diet, exercise, food, right,
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  Food's my feet. Therapy.
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  Yeah, dude, I, I love that. Like, so look, I mean, I, I'm
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  medicated, but like, I wasn't medicated for a long, long time.
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  And, and I have my reasons for wanting to, you know, use
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  medication to help with ADHD and, and kind of my autism.
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  And one of the things I, I always say as well is like we
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  talk about no judgement, right? And I think that people should
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  definitely be open to kind of like, you know, if they feel
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  like they should try medication, do it in your own terms and kind
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  of test it and see what things happen.
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  But I feel like a lot of the time the medical industry do try
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  and pressure users to take medication because they feel
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  like that's they, they feel like they're doing their best job
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  right by saying, Hey, take this stuff because it's going to help
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  you. It's, you know, we've got case
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  studies on it. But a lot of the time it's like,
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  what is good for you? You know, you have to test out
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  different things. And I'm fascinated.
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  You said that your book. So the, the, the, the, the book
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  you've got out right. You said it was written
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  rhythmically. Can you, can you explain what
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  this, what that means? Like let.
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  Me share that I let me just read 1 to you.
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  I'm going to read the back. First of all, you probably read
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  the back so the the listeners can understand why it's the
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  invisible backpack. And then I'll share one I think
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  that's appropriate for the audience, if that's OK.
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  Please. This is the back of the book was
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  written by a reader. It says the invisible backpack
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  is a labor of love created from a lifelong struggle to come to
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  terms with who the author is and accept himself.
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  But he's meant to be Walgworn with an invisible backpack on
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  our backs. It's where we put the hurts of
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  life. When we're young and
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  courageously climbing the stairs of life, it's extremely light
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  and we really don't know it's there.
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  As we get older, it gets heavier with whatever pain, greed or
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  trauma we experience. Unfortunately, we resist taking
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  these feelings out of our backpacks and letting go of
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  them. Some of us hold so tightly we
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  forget to make room for the things that lighten our load.
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  Forgiveness, acceptance, tolerance and love where we put
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  these items in our back. Cancel out all the negative
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  things we've been pulling on to and our lives journey will
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  become much lighter. And that's a reader's hey on why
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  it's invisible backpack. But I, I write in in clear rhyme
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  in the very beginning of the book.
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  I, I, I don't want to get into the trauma piece, but children
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  of my life. So I'm going to read to you
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  children so precious. And this is kind of what
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  rhythmical writing is to me. Simple.
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  Every word has meaning. The most used word in my book is
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  God. And the second most used word is
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  love. Thank you, I love that.
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  Children so precious. How can anyone get so mad they
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  must abuse a child? They have so much, so much joy
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  to give you in a manner that is so much.
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  They are so honest in the way they speak and how they judge us
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  all. Don't abuse that child's morale.
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  Let them stand up tall where was light to crawl before he could
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  walk. Please don't strike that child.
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  Sit down, have a talk. Show them what it's like to love
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  and believe in the Spirit. Don't show them your pain and
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  agony and let them have all your hurt.
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  Sure over to your God those feelings of the angry be
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  stripped away. Enjoy your relationship.
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  Please don't leave them astray. Remember words you speak and
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  never be taken back. So before you tongue lash that
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  child, think of the damage and that's written.
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  And that's what I mean about children.
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  Dude, I love that, you know, one of the ways in which I used to
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  read out comments on live, because I've got to flex here as
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  well, right, is one of the ways I used to read out comments was
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  to sing the comments in kind of like a, a rhythmic way.
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  And I love that. I love the way that that's
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  structured, dude, and the. Only way I can do it it's I I'm
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  I'm considered functionally literate in many ways.
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  I my GPA college Sir was 2.01. That's barely cum laude.
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  Yeah. I've never read a book cover to
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  cover. I can't read very well.
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  I don't write very well. It's something I can never do.
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  My I QS off of charts, my abilities here.
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  So in the 70s and shoving in the military party pop, you know, we
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  we didn't know what to do with them.
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  They didn't know what to do with me.
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  I was a lot, you know, I'm that little Billy.
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  So I understand. And then as a principle, you
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  know, in the middle school, you know, I had we had an
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  emotionally distorted classroom and I was on the cusp have
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  Asperger's when we came to spectrum with autism and we
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  started moving things in a in a way of Spectra thing threat
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  center of ADHD. So I was on the cusp of watching
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  the transition. And you know, I have a lot of
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  experience dealing with children that suffer from the condition
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  that I am and there's never a right way.
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  I mean, never a wrong way. There's always another way.
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  And so we always found each individual and finding a way to
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  help and support each one. You know, I'm threat somebody
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  else maybe need a different way of, of accepting their
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  condition. I guess so, but it is always
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  interesting. I I really, I've studied enough
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  of it to know how challenging it is to have a condition in
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  general. What would you say, what would
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  you say the biggest challenge was for you growing up is like,
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  you know, from say like 8 years old to 15, like what was the
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  biggest challenge you faced? Adults.
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  Well, she used a lot, bullied a lot.
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  I had ticks, I had twitches, I had movements out, sores on my
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  tongue inside now. But now I was a different beast.
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  That was a lot to take the energy off the charts.
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  No honor off switch, only a dimmer, you know, always going.
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  So it was always challenging. You know, I couldn't sit in the
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  chair. It didn't work for me.
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  Sit down and shut up and read. It's never worked for anybody,
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  you know, 10% A's and 90% failures.
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  So it was challenged. It was challenging because they
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  don't say no to do. They didn't know how to respond.
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  They stick you out of class. Yeah, I just stand outside the
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  door. Well, most of the time.
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  Yeah, I, I, yeah, I, I totally, I totally get that.
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  I mean, I had a similar experience, you know, and it was
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  really. Yeah, I just more time in the
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  principal's office as a student than I did as a principal.
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  I guess that's really relatable for people because, like, it is
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  that type of especially like the people of our generation and
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  your generation, you know, because again, right.
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  It wasn't until like the the late 80s that like autism,
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  Asperger's and stuff was more of a, a terminal the medical
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  profession could use on a broader scope, right.
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  And they weren't really all educated about it.
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  Especially like you say, in rural places, like I was in
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  Wales. You know, there's no way
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  anyone's ever going to know about it here in Wales.
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  It's Yeah, it was just, it's just a crazy time.
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  Here's a question. If you could go back in time to
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  see yourself at 8 years old, what would you say to yourself?
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  Well, I don't. I'll I'll praise it as that.
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  Let's say 7th grade teacher Ted Weber.
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  He was a flamboyant man in the 70s and he called me Billy
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  Aloysius, Horatio Llewellyn, Hobart, Agamemnon Hartwick.
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  He goes, you're going to make it someday, but go to the office.
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  You're in my way. So I think I knew at that age
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  that I had something different about me, but I didn't know what
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  it was and I really didn't know how to control it.
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  I didn't know what to do with it.
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  It was a lot of energy, you know, you know that.
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  And so that's my my parents. What's wrong with your boy?
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  I didn't I I don't know. I don't know what I'd say to
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  myself. Don't do anything different.
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  I I don't have any grasp of it. I'm the proverbial little Billy.
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  I'm the one that they named it that.
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  What did that end of the? I love that.
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  What would you what would you like people to know now about
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  your conditions? Like if you have to, if I shot a
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  Dallas like a sentence, what would you like to say to people
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  so they could understand who you are and what you do as a person?
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  You know, like as a person who has Tourettes, a person who has
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  all of these issues, how would you?
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  Is that is foul language that allowed?
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  Of course it is. Yeah, of course.
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  But. Let me read to rats in the very
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  end of the book. I wrote it OK, and this will
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  answer. This will answer your question.
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  Wow, I'm ready. Hey dinner or Marcy?
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  I finally found out I have tourettes.
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  Holy shit, we can call them all Little Son of the Bitches and
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  get away with it. Ah, Kappa Epsilon, my fraternal
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  nickname was Twitch, a term of endearments.
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  A nickname I'll never ditch. I lived 35 years of my life
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  always wondering why I go from complete laughter to a sudden
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  tearful cry. She's my entire childhood.
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  Mainly by those we trust adults with.
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  Worst of all, high school fucking bust.
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  I was called a son of a bitch by Dale Thomas and literally kicked
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  out of class and coach Dyhouse. I can and you on the bus but
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  you're a fucking ass. My label given to me has long
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  been misled even though you have the skin have been misread
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  medication was described. What if you ask for that became
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  it's not OK for medical professionals that cause us to
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  go insane. If I have the only neurological
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  disorder known to those prescribing drugs.
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  Hey doctor Naris loves the answer.
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  How about describing us? I want some guns.
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  Got some shit? I have Tourette's, do you want
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  some of it? The final straw came when I was
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  arrested and thrown in jail. DUI Other than alcohol.
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  You try and make bail. Before you judge of us who've
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  suffered from this pain, think to yourself, what do I have a
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  game? We all have a disability.
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  Take a look in the mirror. Can I walk on water or do I
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  simply have a fear? How to accept others no matter
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  the twitch, the glasses of the tree.
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  Thank God for those who understand why I chose to smoke
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  weed. The only true leaf I've ever had
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  of the love footprints in the sand.
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  My friends, thank you. So often people walk away or
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  simply want to ignore. Maybe threats will go away and
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  many more do. All of you, the hasa kids, the
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  one that makes me be, Don't let them put you in a box.
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  You live and be free. I'm proud of my life each and
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  every day. Of course, there's signs I think
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  make it go away. So when you're passing judgement
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  and you're choosing to discriminate, you're now one of
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  them. You're causing the threats.
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  Dude, that's amazing. That really isn't.
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  I'm going to get a copy of this book, dude.
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  Like it's insanely good. I'll.
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  Say I'll send you one my get, I'll mail you Oh.
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  Please, Yeah, that'd be amazing. I just like I I love stuff like
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  that. So I got I like, I like rhythmic
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  poetry, right, Because like it just has such a, a, a dopamine
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  hit of having rhythmic poetry you.
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  Know someone described it. It's in the beginning.
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  I have some accolades and Randy Fugate, educator Northern
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  California wrote you've broken all the rules and demycified
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  writing poetry, making you accessible to anyone.
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  That's a cool compliment. You know, I really appreciate
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  that hypo because, you know, honestly, it's not poetry to me.
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  It's my health, It's my it's my therapy.
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  People are going to say, well, it looks pretty easy.
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  It's the hardest thing I'm to get to this point.
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  It's been held getting through the last six years.
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  So if you're thinking about any wanting a middle health change,
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  it's not easy. It's the hardest thing you'll
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  do. It's not a cast.
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  I'm not on chemo, you know, we have to get fluid because it's
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  there every minute and we have to deal with it.
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  It's not going to go away. We got to find a way.
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  A. 100% dude. Riding like he's it.
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  Mine's riding a cooking. Everyone has one.
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  We said find it, find a way to pull it out of ourselves, open
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  that backpack and take one thing out.
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  You can't get the tea without one.
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  Yeah, exactly. And I think, you know, anything
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  that's worth having should be hard work, right?
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  So life is life is a, is a test and it's a, and I always say
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  this as well, like, you know, in school, you you learn and then
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  take a test. But but in life God tests you
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  and then you learn, right. So it's kind of like, well.
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  School's a math. I think it's always been bad.
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  Yeah, 'cause it is like schools, they don't know what they're
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  doing. I mean, they do instead of to
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  make factory work. So schools kind of like, can
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  you, can you clock in at this time?
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  Can, can you ask when to go to the bathroom?
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  It's like, you know what I mean? Like, that's not stuff of
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  people, is it? Let's be honest.
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  The greatest invention of modern time and by far the worst
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  system. Yeah, exactly.
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  Educators everywhere, anybody out there listening,
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  superintendents, educators, you all had a chance coming back in
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  COVID to get rid of sit down, shut and read.
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  You could have created an education system that works, but
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  it's easy to fail. So fail, you know you don't fail
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  the kids. You follow your day.
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  It's, it's, yeah, it is so funny because like the educators are
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  doing their best and they're doing the things that they want
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  to do. And like you said, it's a great
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  invention. We all need education.
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  That's how we move forward, right?
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  But at the same time, the structure, which is completely
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  just kaput. Like it's just, it's, it's not
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  fit for purpose. That's.
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  It I don't get away from teaching, it's our concentrating
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  on learning. Yeah, yeah, dude, it was AI
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  think. I think the Dalai Lama said, you
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  know, when we speak we get words we already know, but when we
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  listen, we have the ability to learn something new.
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  And I think that's the difference between learning and
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  and teaching, right? And I my favorite shortest rhyme
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  I wrote and the mind changed against its will is of the same
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  opinions. That's for my friends in DC.
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  Oh man, I don't know if you call them friends.
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  There's a lot going on right now.
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  But dude, you know what's funny and I and I think is brilliant
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  about you is that like you have this like crazy charisma energy
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  that like just radiates from you, right?
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  And for a guy who's been through trauma or been throughout the
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  ups and downs, how's these issues?
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  You're living proof that it's not the things that define you.
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  It's who you are as a person, as a spiritual being.
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  Like that defines who you are, right?
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  And how you shine through that and what your relationship to
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  the universe is. And I think you're doing a
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  fantastic job and I think you're a fantastic role model for a lot
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  of people. I do have a question.
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  How can people find you online? Do you have a website?
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  Do you have social media? Like how do people find out more
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  about you? Well, not yet.
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  First of all, the website we're in the process.
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  OK, you can Google the invisible backpack.
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  It's the book is everywhere. We just re released it.
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  It has just got a five star review from great reads.
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  Why so accreditation and so Google the book.
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  My my email's easy. It's the invisible backpack 2023
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  at Gmail. You can e-mail me.
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  We're working on a website. I don't do social media for many
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  reasons. Don't need to get into it right
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  now, but it's not for me. I, I'm a I'm a purist and
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  naturalist and techno idiot. So I I prefer to reach out and
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  let you all I share this glory and I'll continue to tell it and
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  let the book do its work. So I'm enjoying this type of
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  process. It's a it's a great thing, But
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  so you can reach out through e-mail, you can get the book.
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  I'm in Saint Augustine, you're in the area.
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  I have some book signings coming up pretty soon that books newly
• 17:47
  into Jacksonville Barnes and Noble as well.
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  So got to get out in the public, but it's easy to find a lot out
• 17:55
  there on me right now and it's kind of fun, exciting.
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  I'm just enjoying it, very humble and besides tell a story
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  and hopefully one other person can tell theirs.
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  So what's what's next for you? What what's what's the next
• 18:08
  thing for, for William? Like what?
• 18:09
  What are you? What are you doing next?
• 18:12
  We're doing it today. I have an interview coming up at
• 18:16
  11 with book and author group summarization.
• 18:20
  It's called Book and author. As a matter of fact, Jed from
• 18:23
  the Great Reads organization kind of connected me.
• 18:25
  He's the one that I credited the book and did my last interview.
• 18:29
  So I'm going to continue the process in store for me.
• 18:32
  You know, hopefully this I have two books more coming out.
• 18:34
  My second book is titled mental health, mental health, mental
• 18:38
  health, you decide. And the third book's entitled
• 18:42
  normal, basic and average not and it's My Autobiography and so
• 18:46
  all in rhymes too. So I'm working on those and I
• 18:50
  really want to get out in public and start speaking.
• 18:52
  I think for me, I don't need a lot of income.
• 18:56
  I I want to get out and experience it.
• 18:58
  I think I'm ready for that. I think the world is in a spot
• 19:00
  to hear a story such as mine and maybe that.
• 19:04
  I think so, yeah, dude. And you're awesome.
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  Like there's nothing worse than going to see a keynote speaker
• 19:08
  who's completely boring, and you're the exact opposite of
• 19:11
  boring. So I think it'd be really good.
• 19:13
  Well, I I have a 10 minute intro.
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  It's the 10 minute intro to My Autobiography and it's quite
• 19:19
  telling and it's captivating. I was in Colorado and I
• 19:24
  delivered it at a speaker's Guild there and the lady was a
• 19:27
  48 year veteran speaker. When I finished, she said I, I
• 19:31
  have no problem. That's nice.
• 19:34
  And so I, I think I'm ready. I think I get up there.
• 19:37
  I think I could really benefit some schools around the area,
• 19:40
  high schools especially kids and young adults get ready to make
• 19:43
  transitions into dealing with it.
• 19:45
  I don't require much. I ask that the they buy a copy
• 19:47
  of the book for their staff at a discounted rate.
• 19:50
  Got a couple bucks my way to to pay for things and move on.
• 19:52
  But that's what I would like to start doing and get out there
• 19:54
  and share. Absolutely.
• 19:57
  There's a, there's a, there's a company called Tails to inspire.
• 20:01
  You should definitely reach out to those, or I can link you if
• 20:04
  you remind me by e-mail. And they, they have tails to
• 20:07
  inspire speakers and they help get gigs and things like schools
• 20:11
  and universities and stuff like that.
• 20:12
  So it'd be really cool if she's connected with them because I
• 20:14
  think they'd be really interested in what you have to
• 20:16
  offer and. I'll get 2 shout outs.
• 20:18
  There's a lot of publicist Christina Deptula authors, large
• 20:21
  and smallest is in Davis, CA. She's the one that connected you
• 20:23
  and I, and my publisher is Paul Metal Publishing and they're in
• 20:27
  South Carolina. The president, Jack, they're
• 20:29
  just great people and I just want to let people know that.
• 20:31
  Looking for somebody to help you.
• 20:34
  Christina has autism and her company, organizations, authors
• 20:38
  large and small, and she has disabled people helping us
• 20:42
  disabled people get out and share a story.
• 20:43
  And that's kind of the new organization be part of.
• 20:45
  I met her in San Francisco about a year.
• 20:48
  I have to go to writers when I decided to take the sponge and
• 20:52
  it worked. Dude, I love that San Francisco,
• 20:55
  my favorite place in the whole world, by the way.
• 20:56
  Dude there. We just go, yeah, it's top five
• 20:59
  by far. Absolutely.
• 21:00
  It's amazing city. My guy like.
• 21:02
  The food's off the charts. Off the charts and everywhere
• 21:05
  you go and you're crazy. Maybe I mean Grant.
• 21:07
  Ave. Even AT&T.
• 21:08
  Park, dude, it's, it's great. Best crap sandwich in San
• 21:13
  Francisco? It's an AT&T Park.
• 21:15
  My, my guy, Like I, yeah, it's so good.
• 21:17
  Like I it's just so expensive. Like I'd love to live there.
• 21:20
  I just can't afford it. And you're 90 miles from
• 21:22
  freedom. I mean from Napa.
• 21:24
  Yeah, yeah, you get, you can always get some wine, you know,
• 21:27
  and just go for a drive and. Or maybe not at the same time.
• 21:31
  Not at the same time. I mean, go for a drive and then
• 21:33
  have the wine. But I mean, like it's you're
• 21:34
  close enough right over the Bay Bridge and you're gone.
• 21:37
  It's amazing. Yeah, it's fantastic.
• 21:39
  And I stopped feeling, you know, when you're like flying into
• 21:41
  SFO, it's like, it's where I'm where I'm at, man.
• 21:43
  That's where I'm at. I, I was born and raised at 300
• 21:46
  miles north on the Oregon border on the coast called across the
• 21:49
  city California. So San Francisco was a frequent
• 21:51
  place. I went to live in Chico and
• 21:53
  Arcada, Humble State and Chico. So San Francisco went frequent.
• 21:57
  I lived in the Bay Area in Lafayette right during the Lobo
• 22:00
  Free earthquake in 89. I was a medical Rep for
• 22:02
  Whitehall Laboratories. I was working with Advil.
• 22:05
  It was a really challenging job. Actually, it was, but I was, I,
• 22:09
  I lived in the Bay Area for a couple years too, so very
• 22:12
  familiar with a lot of San Francisco.
• 22:14
  Yeah, it's, it's a great place. I think, you know, they're,
• 22:17
  they're developing parts of like Tenderloin now, which is a bit
• 22:19
  sketchy, but like, it really is good.
• 22:22
  You know, I really liked the Golden Gate Park and the, you
• 22:25
  know, the Japanese tea gardens. Like the whole, the whole
• 22:27
  experience of just being in San Francisco, I think is, is just
• 22:29
  crazy good. And downtown's great.
• 22:31
  You know what I mean? You're like Union Square.
• 22:33
  But you know, I, I, when I was there last, I was, I was staying
• 22:36
  at Nob Hill on the top of California Street.
• 22:38
  And it was just great because I could literally walk to Grand
• 22:41
  Ave. from where I was staying, right?
• 22:42
  And I get just like 2 minutes and like I was in Grand Avenue.
• 22:44
  I don't think I'd eat in Grand Ave., but like, you know, the,
• 22:48
  the, the you're right, though, all the other food, I mean some
• 22:50
  of the best Italian food I've ever had ever Like and if I
• 22:54
  start back the New York. Literally is off the charts.
• 22:56
  It is off the charts. Yeah, dude, I think it's crazy
• 22:59
  good anyway. Yeah, yeah, Will.
• 23:04
  There's a plan for San Francisco.
• 23:06
  I know, like I, I just, I want to go back and be there for
• 23:08
  ages. But yes, it's such a good place.
• 23:10
  Listen, thank you so much for coming on the show.
• 23:11
  I think this is going to inspire a lot of people.
• 23:14
  The invisible backpack book, get it where you can guys.
• 23:16
  Like I'm, I'm super interested. I'm I'm so excited to read this
• 23:19
  book. Like it's like nothing else I've
• 23:20
  ever come across. I think it's amazing.
• 23:22
  William, take care and I will speak to you soon.
• 23:26
  Come on, you have a, you have a minute for a joke.
• 23:28
  Yes, I do. So Jesus no and Moses are
• 23:31
  playing golf. OK and it's a par 3 and there's
• 23:35
  a pod in front. The little old man walks up and
• 23:37
  asks to join. They said sure.
• 23:38
  So Moses spits the tea and it lands on Noah.
• 23:41
  Then it's going to be Moses and Jesus, and then this little guy
• 23:45
  don't know, it gets up and it gets it.
• 23:47
  It's kinda awkward. There's no idea.
• 23:49
  It's going for the water and the water has an arc appear and it
• 23:52
  takes across on the green. So it's Moses turning.
• 23:57
  Moses gets up, strikes it nicely, and it's going for that
• 24:00
  pond and the pond arts and the water ball goes up on the green.
• 24:05
  Go to Jesus's turning. Jesus, this perfect swing, grab
• 24:09
  the rock club. He doesn't make mistakes.
• 24:11
  And it's going for the water and it skips across on the green.
• 24:14
  He turns her ass. It's your turn.
• 24:15
  So this old man gets up and he slices one way out in the woods.
• 24:19
  And a squirrel picks up the ball and runs across it their way.
• 24:22
  An eagle swooped down, picks up the squirrel, flies across the
• 24:24
  screen, drops the ball off and goes in the hole.
• 24:27
  And Jesus turns her ass. Come on Dad, just play golf.
• 24:31
  What? Respected my friend.
• 24:35
  Yeah, it's good. It's good.
• 24:38
  I think that's a, there's a life lesson there somewhere.
• 24:40
  I don't think it's less of a joke, more of a life lesson,
• 24:42
  right? Well, thank you, Sir.
• 24:45
  I appreciate the time you're back together.
• 24:47
  If you want to have another show and if I can help out across the
• 24:50
  pond, let me know. Thank you.
• 24:52
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• 24:54
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• 25:01
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• 25:03
  Peace.