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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
The only time there's friction is when I get into my head or think that I have to do something or create something for more of an impact.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
The logical brain takes over.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
So I'm doing everything I possibly can to keep this heart open, keep these eyes open, and just stay open and connected.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
you're going to have such an impact on these teens growing up.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
I know so much of what you're doing or my observation of what you're doing is on a larger scale, but for kids and teens to hear about that from you, we're not trying to change that, but it's kind of like, oh, me too.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
And then the rest of your story is like, and here's what's possible.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
Here's what's become of it.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
Well, man, we would love to have you.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
I know you get to San Diego from time to time, but it would mean so much to these kids to hear from you.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
Yeah, I'd love to.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
And also, we're super grateful we got a donation from Tony Robbins, actually a match.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
to build this studio, which we're actually building as we speak so that teens can start shooting their episodes.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
It's in our garage, but it's also like a place where we can have teens and then it also be virtual.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
But yeah, if there's an opportunity for them to hear from you and then also how you're doing it, because it's cool.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
Instead of like telling them, oh, social media is bad or stay off your phones or whatever, like, you know, they're misunderstood around that.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
we as parents didn't have that.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
So yes, of course, those better days of playing until the street lights went off and not being on our phones, yeah.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
But I mean, that's the world we grew up in.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
These kids also see these platforms and opportunities as ways to connect.
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Neal Tricarico: Autistic Teens Are 30% More Likely to Die by Suicide | DSH #1759
And we want to embrace that aspect and help them with that.