We felt extremely helpless. We knew no one else who had autistic kids.

You want to get immediate help as soon as possible because the more help you get, the sooner [and] the better the outcome.

It was kind of scary. You're saying, 'What's going on?' It's frightening, it's really frightening.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

If you go too much earlier in the spring, then the kids haven't had all the instruction they should have.