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Caden McElwain

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
189 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Well, I've mainly been looking for autism organizations, but I'm open to anything. I got an internship waiting for me for as controversial as they are in this community.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Autism Speaks, who I hold a couple of grudges against for their past controversies, but I will say I'm giving props for giving me a chance trying to put more neurodivergent and autistic people onto their board and moving along with times. So I got that internship. win for me come spring of 2025. I'd be open to any autism organization. I'm just a guy who believes in this cause.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Autism Speaks, who I hold a couple of grudges against for their past controversies, but I will say I'm giving props for giving me a chance trying to put more neurodivergent and autistic people onto their board and moving along with times. So I got that internship. win for me come spring of 2025. I'd be open to any autism organization. I'm just a guy who believes in this cause.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Autism Speaks, who I hold a couple of grudges against for their past controversies, but I will say I'm giving props for giving me a chance trying to put more neurodivergent and autistic people onto their board and moving along with times. So I got that internship. win for me come spring of 2025. I'd be open to any autism organization. I'm just a guy who believes in this cause.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Like, if I'm under stress, I mean, a good stress coping mechanism I use is putting on a song and zoning out. One new song I discovered recently, actually, today to be exact, that came out today at the time of this recording, is Temporary by Eminem on his new album.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Like, if I'm under stress, I mean, a good stress coping mechanism I use is putting on a song and zoning out. One new song I discovered recently, actually, today to be exact, that came out today at the time of this recording, is Temporary by Eminem on his new album.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Like, if I'm under stress, I mean, a good stress coping mechanism I use is putting on a song and zoning out. One new song I discovered recently, actually, today to be exact, that came out today at the time of this recording, is Temporary by Eminem on his new album.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Well, like I said, eventually, I want to run for political office. At first, I thought I wanted to run for president immediately and be the first neurodivergent president in U.S. history. But I think I got to get some political experience first. So I think I want to start small, go towards a position like commissioner or senator or that kind of thing. And in the sense of sort...

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Well, like I said, eventually, I want to run for political office. At first, I thought I wanted to run for president immediately and be the first neurodivergent president in U.S. history. But I think I got to get some political experience first. So I think I want to start small, go towards a position like commissioner or senator or that kind of thing. And in the sense of sort...

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Well, like I said, eventually, I want to run for political office. At first, I thought I wanted to run for president immediately and be the first neurodivergent president in U.S. history. But I think I got to get some political experience first. So I think I want to start small, go towards a position like commissioner or senator or that kind of thing. And in the sense of sort...

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

I definitely want to continue the stuff I'm doing now, appearing on these platforms, telling my story, giving speeches, planning these events. I got junior year of college coming up in August. I'm hoping to get another Dean's List, two more technically. one for each semester to even me out to six.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

I definitely want to continue the stuff I'm doing now, appearing on these platforms, telling my story, giving speeches, planning these events. I got junior year of college coming up in August. I'm hoping to get another Dean's List, two more technically. one for each semester to even me out to six.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

I definitely want to continue the stuff I'm doing now, appearing on these platforms, telling my story, giving speeches, planning these events. I got junior year of college coming up in August. I'm hoping to get another Dean's List, two more technically. one for each semester to even me out to six.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

And in the sense of long-term when it comes to college, if I can get eight consecutive dean's lists for all four years of college, that would be awesome.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

And in the sense of long-term when it comes to college, if I can get eight consecutive dean's lists for all four years of college, that would be awesome.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

And in the sense of long-term when it comes to college, if I can get eight consecutive dean's lists for all four years of college, that would be awesome.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

I think I've grown past them. I handle crowded spaces extremely well. In fact, I love going to clubs and events and things like that whenever I have time.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

I think I've grown past them. I handle crowded spaces extremely well. In fact, I love going to clubs and events and things like that whenever I have time.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

I think I've grown past them. I handle crowded spaces extremely well. In fact, I love going to clubs and events and things like that whenever I have time.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Kadin McElwain: Conquering Autism Through Family Support, Advocacy, and Digital Storytelling โ€“ An Inspiring Journey of Personal Growth and Resilience

Hmm. As a matter of fact, I do. For some reason, I hate peanut butter and nuts and breakfast cereals and stuff like that. And I think it's definitely because texture, because it's weird. I used to love peanut butter when I was younger. I would have it on pancakes. I would have it on pretty much anything. Then one day, I just pretty much stopped loving that.