Welcome to another episode of Crazy Fitness Guy Healthy Living Podcast
I like to say the weekly live stream every Fridays and just before we get
started and before I introduced our guest you can follow me on Facebook
Twitter and Instagram and those are the correct ones this time. Note to self, never
do that again. Anyway, so and if once this episode goes on podcast you can
listen to it on Apple, Google, Spotify and every major podcast platform and I am so
looking forward to my guest today and sorry I'm looking forward to my guest
today who's a motivational speaker, autism advocate and funny thing is we
started around the same exact time, pretty much the same exact time when we
started our speaking engagements as a motivational speaker. Today we're going to talk to Jeff Snyder and it's going to be a very very fun interesting
interview and I'm just looking forward to having him on so let's get him out
here. Welcome Jeff. Thank you Jimmy glad glad to be here with you today. So could
you give us a little bit background of who you are. I already said you're a
motivational speaker and autism advocate but I'll say there's probably more to
you than that. Yes, I well first off I was first diagnosed with autism in at 21
months old in December of 1990. I was nonverbal until I was I was nonverbal
until I was four years old and then upon my graduation from high school in 2007 I
became the first student with autism in my town school district to have spent
pre-k through grade 12 without coming from other schools or other towns. I am
also from Seekonk, Massachusetts which is about 10 minutes from Providence Rhode Island and about 45 minutes southwest of Boston so that's
where I'm based out of and also I have been living in my own apartment since
2015 so I've been living on my own for six years now and in addition to my in
addition to my autism self-advocacy I run a page on Facebook called Jeff
Snyder Disability Self Advocate. I also run a group on Facebook called Jeff
Snyder Disability Self Advocacy. I am also on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram. I do videos on YouTube and then I am also a moderator for the Global Autism
Project's Autism Knows No Borders which is both on Facebook and on my networks
That's cool. So today I was thinking maybe we can talk a little bit about
understanding autism since it's the last day of April and I thought it would be a
good way to wind down April since it's the last day. I don't know why I just
repeated myself but just go with it it's Friday. So what do you think are some of
the misconceptions about autism? Well I think people I think part of the reason
why people get misconceptions about autism is because it's hearsay you know
you'll hear the opinions of others that say you know oh autism needs to be cured
or autism is a disease and let me be very clear it's not it's not any of
those it's something that would something that we're born with but we sometimes don't know when we have autism when we're if we have or when we get
autism. I mean my story is that in October of 1998 I was interviewed