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And for me, what made the foundation come together actually, I'm a government official and I work in a space which this is what we would have been working on. But government is a slow space. And coming from NGOs, I think I was frustrated and I needed an outlet. So the foundation for me was therapy. And it was therapy in the sense that, you know, a lot of times when people talk about disability or something like autism, we are concentrating very much on going to school and all of those things are necessary. Yes. But when you have

Child, I want to do things with my kids, I want to go to spaces with my kids. So that's why I say for me, the allyship is that. And what the foundation is about is creating spaces, restaurants, leisure, travel. Love that. Church. You will be surprised how we cannot go to church because, in as much as people want to pray for your child, they don't want your child to be disruptive in church. You know, so for me, what the journey has been over the past selective care, selective compassion. It's nice versus kind.

Nice versus kind. Yes, we definitely want to pray, but can he sit down? Yeah, can you hold him down? In fact, can you not be here? Exactly. Can you not be here? And now my boys are 15 in December. Oh, nice. Twin boys, of course. Now we're out of the cute phase because when autistics are small and they're cute, and everybody's like, oh my god, so many words, da-da-da-da-da. But when you have a 14-year-old who is towering over you and maybe pushing you or maybe taking off their clothes, it's not cute no more. People are looking around to be like, and then

They're black boys. So like, are they dangerous? Are they overly socialized? And you're like, no, it's still. They're autistic. They're autistic. It's part of it. We have found our rhythm. And I always say in our support groups, like, autism in my kids, we are great. It's when you bring everybody else in that you like now have to figure out so people understand why we have a routine, why we do things this way, why we've let go, but also understanding that komuto as a girl, as a