Betsy Hicks Russ

It was an entirely different experience, and it was going so well, and I just kept getting a nudge, you need to make these, and I never thought I would be doing this.

I'm like, somebody

else can do that.

Yep.

There we go.

Somebody else can do it.

And so I did it.

I contracted them out with a company and I have these vests that I sell.

I started a nonprofit.

We don't make any money from it.

It goes a hundred percent.

The vests are only $20 and that's pretty much what they cost us.

We sell these through Autism Odyssey.

The thing that people, it's, when people have said to me in the past, but you're labeling, and like, first of all, Joe chooses to wear it.

Secondly...

But is it a bad label?

Like if somebody were deaf and you didn't know that they were deaf, you could do things that might scare them or frighten them.

And so sometimes it's labeling is about communication.

Sometimes labeling, putting a name on it is more about how can we help?

Give this person special considerations so that they have an easier time at it.