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Doug Passon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

How many times have I gone into my son's bedroom? Hey, just to make sure, kiddo, it's not okay to do X, Y, Z, right? And he's like, yeah, dad, thanks. This is the story I have a hard time telling with regard to isolation. I see pictures of my son when he's a young boy, two, three, four years old, and he has this beautiful smile, so happy.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

How many times have I gone into my son's bedroom? Hey, just to make sure, kiddo, it's not okay to do X, Y, Z, right? And he's like, yeah, dad, thanks. This is the story I have a hard time telling with regard to isolation. I see pictures of my son when he's a young boy, two, three, four years old, and he has this beautiful smile, so happy.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

How many times have I gone into my son's bedroom? Hey, just to make sure, kiddo, it's not okay to do X, Y, Z, right? And he's like, yeah, dad, thanks. This is the story I have a hard time telling with regard to isolation. I see pictures of my son when he's a young boy, two, three, four years old, and he has this beautiful smile, so happy.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

Now I look at these pictures, and he won't smile for a picture. He just won't. Emotional affect issues and things with autism, and I was looking at how much emotion and how effervescent and beautiful this boy was. And I asked my wife who, and she has a great background in this. She's a speech language pathologist and she worked with autistic kids in the school district.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

Now I look at these pictures, and he won't smile for a picture. He just won't. Emotional affect issues and things with autism, and I was looking at how much emotion and how effervescent and beautiful this boy was. And I asked my wife who, and she has a great background in this. She's a speech language pathologist and she worked with autistic kids in the school district.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

Now I look at these pictures, and he won't smile for a picture. He just won't. Emotional affect issues and things with autism, and I was looking at how much emotion and how effervescent and beautiful this boy was. And I asked my wife who, and she has a great background in this. She's a speech language pathologist and she worked with autistic kids in the school district.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

I said, Rach, do you think it's possible that autism is like comes later in life? Like it's an onset that progressive look at his emotional affect here and look at here. And she said, no, I think more likely than not that life has just beaten the smile out of our son.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

I said, Rach, do you think it's possible that autism is like comes later in life? Like it's an onset that progressive look at his emotional affect here and look at here. And she said, no, I think more likely than not that life has just beaten the smile out of our son.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

I said, Rach, do you think it's possible that autism is like comes later in life? Like it's an onset that progressive look at his emotional affect here and look at here. And she said, no, I think more likely than not that life has just beaten the smile out of our son.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

He was bullied with very little friends. Bullied. Always felt bad about himself. Teachers didn't understand him. Principals didn't understand him. So I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

He was bullied with very little friends. Bullied. Always felt bad about himself. Teachers didn't understand him. Principals didn't understand him. So I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

He was bullied with very little friends. Bullied. Always felt bad about himself. Teachers didn't understand him. Principals didn't understand him. So I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

What happens to these kids? They get isolated. They don't have the social interaction to where they can learn the things that neurotypicals learn about. This is the way you're supposed to interact in a sexual situation, or this is social reciprocity, whatever. So what do they do? They don't learn, but where do they go? You know where they go.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

What happens to these kids? They get isolated. They don't have the social interaction to where they can learn the things that neurotypicals learn about. This is the way you're supposed to interact in a sexual situation, or this is social reciprocity, whatever. So what do they do? They don't learn, but where do they go? You know where they go.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

What happens to these kids? They get isolated. They don't have the social interaction to where they can learn the things that neurotypicals learn about. This is the way you're supposed to interact in a sexual situation, or this is social reciprocity, whatever. So what do they do? They don't learn, but where do they go? You know where they go.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

They go online because it's so much easier to communicate with a person when you're not face to face and all that social stuff. And online is just a cesspool of epic proportion that there's nothing but trouble there. You're vulnerable in any number of ways. But it's also this idea, so now you're online, but you have this issue. This is the second pillar. What is it?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

They go online because it's so much easier to communicate with a person when you're not face to face and all that social stuff. And online is just a cesspool of epic proportion that there's nothing but trouble there. You're vulnerable in any number of ways. But it's also this idea, so now you're online, but you have this issue. This is the second pillar. What is it?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

They go online because it's so much easier to communicate with a person when you're not face to face and all that social stuff. And online is just a cesspool of epic proportion that there's nothing but trouble there. You're vulnerable in any number of ways. But it's also this idea, so now you're online, but you have this issue. This is the second pillar. What is it?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

Hyper-focus, areas of high interest. People on the spectrum, I think it's a way they manage anxiety, just become so interested in one thing and always into that thing. Great. Online, you can go as deep and as wide as you want to go on any topic.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Doug Passon: Breaking Down Barriers, How Understanding Autism Changes Legal Outcomes

Hyper-focus, areas of high interest. People on the spectrum, I think it's a way they manage anxiety, just become so interested in one thing and always into that thing. Great. Online, you can go as deep and as wide as you want to go on any topic.