Neal Tricarico

But what they're finding out is really working is taking that D out, just saying, hey, you have something called autism, and it's a difference.

So our eyes are both brown, but someone I just met from here has blue eyes.

So we have brown eyes.

We have blue eyes.

Helping these kids understand that,

There's just a uniqueness and a difference and also to embrace that difference.

So when we can help them find their tribe, their superpowers and their superheroes, extraordinary things can happen.

So for me, I grew up in the 80s.

I loved sports.

Keith Hernandez was my hero.

Other generations that may be sports people are rock stars.

But what they're helping these kids understand is.

what's their superpower right their unique gifts that we all have and they're super bright and intelligence they have gifts who are their tribes where they can fit in and those gifts resonate and who are their superheroes so in many cases for these kids it's like elon musk right high functioning autistic i mean just yeah wildly successful but it but it's so profound so there's not

like, oh, we need to do millions of dollars of research, or we just need to help these kids embrace their differences, find their superheroes, find their tribe, and then help them through this very risky period so that they can thrive as adults, much like many of the most successful people we can think of do, many of whom are on the spectrum.

that's why i think we should rewrite the narrative around shaming autism yes i think it should be seen as a power these days man um i don't know you've got 4k cameras here maybe it picks up these goosebumps but uh yeah you know and you know this this difference is near and dear to me because it happened to us but as the mission of endurance by the way endurance means

capable of overcoming extreme adversity and hardship.

And it also has a little meaning to us as well because it has Ant in it.

And Ant was Anthony's nickname.

That's how he was known.

But we agree.