Watch This Family's Inspiring Journey With Autism

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"Autism is not a disease, it's a different wiring of the brain." The Rodrigues family fought against social stigma, lack of infrastructure, and their own inhibitions to live loud and proud with autism today.

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00:00I don't want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need

00:12And both the kids are on the autism spectrum

00:30Autism is not a disease, it's basically a condition

00:47It's a different wiring of a brain

00:50It's basically just a development of delay

01:00We were also thinking, why me?

01:25Adrian was around two and a half, three years

01:28He used to be so aggressive

01:30We used to even feel that as if there is some sort of a spirit come on him

01:36Because that is how we see in movies

01:49There are some good days and there are not some good days

01:52So we need to be positive, looking at the good days

01:55And then we need to move on

02:07Joanne is a very goal oriented person, a targeted person

02:11She believes in doing things as scheduled and on time

02:18And Brydon is just the opposite

02:21He believes in complete perfection and doing things at his own pace

02:25There were friends and relatives even coming to us and saying

02:52Why God has done it only to you?

02:55We used to avoid going into the lifts if people are there

02:58A lot of awareness has to be created, only then our kids will get more opportunities

03:09It's basically just the acceptance in the beginning that is required

03:14From individuals, from society, from teachers, from schools, from anybody

03:20It's the able and not the label

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