episode of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living podcast. I have a
cool guest coming on my podcast. His name is Sam. And he runs his
own podcast called Autism Rock and Roll. And I'm just gonna let him introduce himself because that's what I'd like to
do with some of my guests. Welcome, Sam. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Clare. It's a huge honor
So tell me a little bit about your podcast. Okay. Oh, this is my mom, by the way. She's going to be joining
us as well. Hi, everybody. Thanks for having me on here. My name is Gina. And
I'm Sam's mom. So was it So to answer your question about my podcast. So to answer your
pot to answer your question about to tell my pockets it's about autism because I have high functioning autism. I'm on the
spectrum. I've been on it for a good long time. And I started to
get the stigma off of autism. And it's about autism. I could
with daily shows that you may or may not understand. And what kind of struggles do you go through every day
Okay. So the first one is this. Have you ever said something to
where you spat out? You've I thought, Oh, shoot, I shouldn't have said that
Yeah, pretty much every day. Thank you. Okay, you're not the only one. I that's one of my
struggles. I spit out some I probably shouldn't have said like, it comes out of your mouth like, Oh, you want to put it
back in? Yep. That's my life every single day. At least someone else is like that. And I don't quite
compromise. Well, I don't do plan B's. I'm like, we're doing it. Or we're not doing it. You know, like we're not doing
We're not going to go to the store. Good night. If it's strawberry ice cream, like let's say that, for example, I
want that. We're gonna have strawberry ice cream, or I'm not getting anything at all. I can relate to that a little bit as well, too. For me, I
struggle with sometimes looking people in the eye. I've gotten better at I kind of made a game out of it a little bit. I first
looked at behind the wall at the person. I looked at the
wall. And then I looked at the person's eyes and I go around
the room multiple times and then looked at the rug behind their
feet and whatnot. I don't look at their feet, but I look behind them a lot of the time. So then it doesn't look like I'm
staring at them. Yeah, that's another problem. I don't mean to stare. But when I
get bored with something, I immediately that's my way of shutting down with schoolwork is I'm not like, well, screw this
school screw this math assignment. I'm not doing it. No, like that's not me. Or I'm like, I know I'm not doing it. Like
I'm not like, my way of shutting down is I just stare at a person
or look always to the left. And look at a wall or a person and
stare at that accidentally. That's what I did with my schoolwork when I was in middle
school. I stared at my work because I hated schoolwork. Especially math. Probably why I'm not an accountant. Like I
said to people, I've only related to that. I like from seeing the numbers in my bank account go up. There's only been
going down lately. Thanks, pandemic. Yeah. So just out of curiosity, why
So just out of curiosity, why did you pick the name autism
rock and rolls? Well, it's rocks and rolls. I don't mean to correct you. But
that is someone get the listeners confused because there's a podcast called autism rock and roll. But I don't want
it's rocks and rolls. I don't want to get them confused. So
the why I take that is because I think autism because that was the name we thought it's like, what'd be so good to go with it
and was gonna be inside autistic brain, but that sounded bland. So I thought, well, wait a minute, what do I like, maybe I
could make a hobby and turn to something I like, and put that in the title. So I learned that over time, I still do love rock
music, like hard metal, rock, edgy music. And that's where we came up with the name rocks and rolls
That's cool. What's your favorite type? What's your favorite band? Oh, there's it's a tie between two ACDC and Nickelback
I like ACDC. ACDC too. I seen two of them in concert
You lucky dog. They weren't easy tickets to come by. Though I did say to