Ellie Wilson

They are scattered throughout a time in a child's development when there also are a lot of other important milestones happening, whether that's the first time a child speaks, whether it's the time that they start to show signs of other types of social interactions.

And there's some pretty obvious confusion that happens around the time where parents and

Even misinformed members of the sort of general provider landscape are misattributing those behavioral differences to a time that someone is vaccinated.

And you know, guys, the theory has been disproved about a thousand times.

And so at the end of the day, we don't.

reject the curiosity.

We understand that people really want to know and want to investigate, but we also are beating a dead horse when it comes to the issue of vaccination specifically.

I do.

You are referring to Eva Erickson, who ended up being the runner-up finalist of the show.

She almost took the whole thing.

Exactly.

She is a woman in her mid-20s, originally from Minnesota.

She was diagnosed when she was only two years old at a provider in our local landscape that we know very well.

um you know eva is an amazing intellect i don't know if you know that she's actually a phd candidate at brown uh right now um but you know she's also an incredible athlete she defies a number of important stereotypes around the sort of autistic perspective which we love but above all um what happened on survivor is that eva not only disclosed her disability to the show but she

managed to use disclosure as a way to gain herself some allyship in the show in a way that really represents a cool story of someone advocating for themselves teaching someone else about what their needs are especially in a high stress situation and that young woman you know effectively really not only managed her disability internally but she managed the resources around her

to be able to access support when she needs it.

And she spoke about it beautifully and eloquently in a way that I do think rocked the sort of survivor, um, fan landscape, which was pretty cool.

Uh, pretty cool.

Yeah.

So this is part of when we say the spectrum is really wide, right?