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My Friend Autism

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The Importance of Openness in Podcasting

I'm really scared for my five year old going into the school system, probably because of my experiences. The good news is I haven't seen a primary school that's really dropping the ball on autism. But secondary schools have not understood that autistic kids grow into autistic teenagers. It has followed the funding that is attached to when the zero to eight life stage and it does not think enough about the different emotional processing styles of autistic teenagers. There are probably people in radio and TV who are autistic but they just obviously don't want to talk about it.

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