Crystal Fox

Somehow people think that they have a choice when they're younger and on the streets.

Again, this class that I was in today, I kept hearing that, well, they're choosing to live on the streets.

They're choosing this.

They're choosing that.

And it's a lot of misinformation that I think is getting better.

But we have a long ways to go.

Yeah, I have a strong opinion about this because I have raised a daughter with autism who at one and a half years old, we kind of thought, oh, something just isn't right.

She's not doing the typical milestones.

Pulled the pediatrician by two.

They were like, yeah, we need to send her.

And by two and a half, she had the diagnosis of autism.

And I was told all about it.

I was given resources, all the acronyms, IEPs, ISPs, BP, you know, I mean, the whole...

more than I could even deal with as a parent.

The difference was with Joshua, nobody wanted to call it what it was.

Nobody wanted to say you have schizophrenia.

And I watched how in autism, the ability to be able to diagnose autism now, even as a baby, because they're not looking...

You know, I think we can do that.

And maybe Dr. Hager will agree with me.

I think there's symptoms that are predominant symptoms that we could recognize sooner that we are ignoring.