1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: What area code is ninety seven zero? Anybody knows what 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: nine seven zero is? 3 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 2: No? 4 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: We get a text from nine seven zero It says 5 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: John Jay's autism really shines during Christmas wish rism with 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: the tism Jan. 7 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 3: Northern Colorado. 8 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 2: What I did? 9 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 3: Colorado? 10 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: Oh? So, Kyle, what's going on with your son Easton? 11 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 3: Well? I love his inquisitive mind. He is very curious. 12 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: He's eight years old now, and I do I do 13 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: need to like find some sort of hack or trick 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 2: to help him just go to bed, because they can 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: be like so tired, and then once we start like 16 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: brushing the teeth, going to potty, washing the hands of 17 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:48,319 Speaker 2: things we do. 18 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 3: Before we go to bed, it's like they're all jazzed up. 19 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 3: They're on fire. 20 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 2: Like all of a sudden, they wake up, like it 21 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: wakes them up to the point where it's like, oh 22 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 2: my gosh. To bring them down to where they get 23 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: tired again, it's very difficult, you know, like having them 24 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 2: draw or color afterwards, or read books or like just 25 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 2: lay down in silence. And it's pretty much the same 26 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: almost every night. So we'll do all the things and 27 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 2: we'll the lights will be out, ready for bed, everyone's 28 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: tucked in, and then like twenty minutes, Easton will come 29 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 2: and he'll like lean up next to my bed there 30 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: he is like, hey, buddy, what's up. 31 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 3: He's like, Mamma, can you come lay with me? And 32 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: I'll be like okay, because I think that's pretty pretty 33 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 3: darn cute, So I'll go lay with him. And sometimes 34 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 3: he just wants me to lay with him. 35 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 2: But a lot of times I can just tell his 36 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 2: brain is spinning because it'll be quiet, and then he'll 37 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 2: turn to me and he'll ask me a question like 38 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: one he asked the other night. 39 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 3: Is he goes, well, what college do you think I 40 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 3: should go to? 41 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 2: You are eight? 42 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 3: We got plenty of time for this. Do you not 43 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 3: that out right? Now? 44 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: Go to bed? 45 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 2: But I want to say that, you know what I mean, 46 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: because like I treasure the moments that he wants to 47 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: talk to me. So I'm like, you know what I 48 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 2: think we'll do probably when you're like a junior senior 49 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: in high school, we'll go visit some colleges you're interested, and. 50 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 3: Then you can make the choice. 51 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 2: Then and he's like, Okay, how many years left do 52 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: I have at my school? It's like his brain like 53 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: spinning and spinning and spinning, and it's like I said, 54 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 2: like I love the conversation, but also I'm like counting 55 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: the minutes that I'm losing of sleep, and like how 56 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 2: tired I'm going to be the next day. 57 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 3: And I don't want to be. 58 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: I don't want to be like, Okay, way out of 59 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: go to bed now, which is what. 60 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 3: I'm saying in my head. But I'm like, Okay, I 61 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 3: think we can. I think we can talk about these 62 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 3: things tomorrow. Right, let's go to bed. 63 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: I think he's way ahead of the game. I remember 64 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: I was fifteen years old and I was having dinner 65 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: with my friend Greg and his family. Missus Potterson, Missus 66 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: Powison says to me, John Jay, where do you want 67 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 1: to go to college? What do you want to study? 68 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: And I was like what, No one's ever talked to 69 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: me about that before. I don't even know what college is. 70 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: And I was so embarrassed. I'll never forget my aunts. 71 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: I was like, well, I like to help people. People 72 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: always tell me their problems at all. The girls of 73 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: school always tell me their problems, and I don't know, 74 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: maybe a psychiatrist. And I never forget how terrible and 75 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: asked me where he should go to college. It's gonna 76 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: be like the next Elon Musk. 77 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 2: He's planned, because there's also been times where he's like, Mom, 78 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: you know, I said I wanted four kids. Now I 79 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: think maybe just two or three. 80 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 3: Oh my god. 81 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 2: He loves he loves babies. He wants so bad to 82 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: have like for us to have another kid. I only 83 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: wants to be a big brother. He loves like taking 84 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 2: care of babies. He's my like emotional child like. He's 85 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: very empathetic. 86 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: He loves that. 87 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: And then ADDIE's kind of like, I don't think I 88 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: ever want kids. I just want like animals at my house. 89 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: I think both those stories are very very relatable. I 90 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: remember putting my kids down like that. It was so funny. 91 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, those even though you're not you don't get to sleep. 92 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 3: It's just awesome when they ask you to snuggle, it's 93 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 3: just awesome.