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And some people will use

medication

to just keep them quiet,

and, you know, so that they can

have a nice eight hours,

you know, working

with the kids.

And that's always

going to be wrong.

Because my tantrums

gave my parents insights

to how to help me, what things

were I having trouble with.

Now, medication is fine

as long as

the medication is only trying

to help the autistic person

work better

and work smarter.

But if it's just meant to be

a chemical straitjacket, no.

The autistic person

has to be a partner

in their success.

They have to be a partner

in growing up to be

the successful person

I've become.

The cool thing about

my family is that

they made me

a full partner.

You know, they showed me

the world the way it really is

and they said, "Wolf, this is

the world the way it really is.

You might not like it,

but you're going to have

to deal with it.

And you can't have tantrums

and you can't throw

a chair across the room,

you know, when somebody

makes you mad.

Or when somebody blows

one of your systems.

When somebody does something

you don't expect.

You can't kick everybody

in the face

just because they touch you.

You know, and that's the way

the real world is."

And my parents gave me that.

And because of that,

you know --

and if medicine helps me to calm

down to the point to where,

okay, I understand why I don't

need to kick them in the face,

then that's a good use

of medicine.

Because medicine is helping you

to keep your system calm.

But it's not calming you

so much

that you are

involuntarily calmed

and you have no input

and no part to play

in who you become.

MAN:
Okay, stop.

Stop.

Turn around.

Turn around.

Go on.

GIRL:
No!

[Whining]

Let's go this way.

[Girl shrieking]

GIRL:
Stand up?

MAN:
No, you don't have to.

I think she just wants to keep

going, keep exploring forever.

Like always, like that's...

I don't know, man,

she just doesn't...

Like she just doesn't want

to go back, you know.

It just seems to us like she'd

just want to keep walking

until she just collapsed.

You know.

And then she'd wake up,

eat some grass,

[Chuckles]

and then just keep going.

We can't figure out, you know,

like we just can't.

We know some things.

We know how she's going to react

to some things,

but like, we don't know.

She's a mystery.

That's like the whole point.

She's so mysterious,

and like you said yesterday,

really stoic.

No, thank you.

GIRL:
No!

-Be a good girl, please.

GIRL:
No!

MAN:
Please be a good girl.

GIRL:
N-N-No.

MAN:
Be a good girl.

We're going to have to

go this way.

[Girl shrieks]

GIRL:
Stand up?

MAN:
You don't have to

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