Kelly

And I realize now there's no reason to feel ashamed or guilt about it.

This is just what's happening.

It's just the cards we were dealt with.

And anyone could have been dealt these cards.

I mean, this happened to Brian, who was least likely to...

have this diagnosis where he was playing all these sports he was mr cool in high school he was he didn't seem to have any anxiety or fears but it happened to him yeah and what i would want to spread awareness for is that somebody

with a disorder like Brian's, it doesn't make them a monster.

It doesn't make them less of a person.

It's something that he struggles with.

And I think people could look at somebody like Brian as somebody who's struggling rather than someone to be fearful of.

I did want to, I think, I did think of a scenario that might happen to people where they would be fearful of

somebody somebody with brian's disorder like maybe even taking an uber and if your uber driver is talking to himself you might you might be scared you might be thinking like oh my god he's gonna kill me and i don't blame anyone for thinking like that too i would be i would probably be thinking the same thing because of how media portrays somebody with schizoaffective or schizophrenia but i i would hope people could

refer back to this video if they see it and think like that's somebody's brother or son or family member and that they're struggling and just have more empathy because i know it's it's kind of like easy to judge and poke fun at that but that person is definitely struggling and yeah i just hope that people can have more empathy

Absolutely.

I work now as a behavioral therapist for kids with autism and so I specialize in ABA.

And I connect that to Brian's disorder.

So this is just my way of thinking about it and making sense of everything because I do see some connections with the behaviors of my kids that I work with and Brian, just the different ways to talk to them.

And I think most importantly is to just stay calm and treat

Treat anyone as you would want to be treated and as a person.

With care and compassion.