Abbey's Mom
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And I said, my fear is that the world will be mean to her. and hurt her when I'm gone. And I know that's what so many parents think. So I speak for them when I say that.
And so I think now, and I'm like, I'm your plus one. How did this happen? And it's so great because I think that we're looking at neurodiversity differently. We're looking at autism differently. I've been so happy to be part of Love on the Spectrum. I don't know why Tanner comes to mind from season two. But he's so absolutely lovely as a human being.
He is so adorable and sweet and kind and brings so much joy to people. And we embrace that. And before, people may have looked at that as weird or strange. Right. And I don't think people are doing that anymore that have seen the show.
And that's what I hope for all people with differences, whether it's more of the antisocial autism or a different kind of autism that people just have a little bit more kindness to people with all disabilities too.
There's been a lot of risks like... But I always say like the risk from her walking the dog on her own, from her jumping into the vocal training with Bob Garrett, were all risks. But if I let my fear get in the way of her growth, then I did a bad job. Because it's a balance between those two things. Look, if the coach didn't work out for the singing thing, you'd say this isn't working out.
We tried it, it failed. If she walked the dog and she got scared and called me, she had her phone, she could call me and say, I can't do this. Then that didn't work, but at least we tried. I think sometimes, especially in the neurodivergent world, in the autism world, when kids have obvious struggles, we worry. Because we're trying to protect them. But we get our kids until they're 18.
We have to train them for the front lines of life, even if they're neurotypical. My son was working at 12. He worked at the summer camp. And I wanted him to have that same get in the world, jump in, and just do the best you can for who you are. We're not saying you have to be the CEO of a company.
We're just wanting you to have all the skills so that whatever you choose to do in life, you're prepared and you're confident and you know how to solve problems.
do you know so both of them have had kind of their own thing and i'm i'm proud of both of them do you know and i like i said in 2022 when i had my detached retina that she loves talking about bringing up yeah she had love on the spectrum airing on the wednesday and the sunday before my son graduated purdue university in engineering and i did that by myself so i was like Okay, I can retire now.
I can't actually retire now.
So for Abby, Abby's on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. No way. Hats by Abby. So please follow her. We're doing more like long form, kind of like behind the scenes of Abby's life on her YouTube channel. Um, and then I'm also on YouTube as Christine Abbey's mom and I do long form. My long form is kind of educational. I want to share with people just tools. What did I do? What worked?
What didn't work? What did I wish I knew? Because the interventions are key for her success for sure. And then my shorts are just kind of like fun stuff. And then Instagram, Christine Abbey's mom.
buy a hat yes you can buy a hat and hats by abby so you can buy a hat or merch you know it's funny people will write to us and say abby did her merch store before love on the spectrum that came from tiktok no way well because we show people in her thoughts as you see she has these associations and comes up with really funny lines and the new one is witches eat vegetables so that might be going on a shirt yes no everyone if you like the episode comment witches eat vegetables down below
Jodie Benson. So that would be cool. Anything's possible. And she's actually scheduled to sing at the Greek Theater.
In LA in April for Autism Awareness for Light It Up Blue. That's so cool. Wow.
and um yeah because um steven stills is very involved there so that would be that i believe is happening so wow how cool amazing well thank you for being here thank you so much for seriously sharing your story i know a lot of lives are going to be changed by by this interview so thank you so much thank you so much for having us here and letting us share with you guys it means the world it really does we're honored we are truly honored we're honored too
I think Abby might want some Chardonnay.
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