Emotional Father Shares Life-Changing Advice You Need To Hear | David Flood Speech | Goalcast

* Emotional Father Shares Life-Changing Advice You Need To Hear | David Flood Speech | Goalcast * David Flood chokes up telling the story of his son and the lessons we can all learn from him.

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he he developed typically for the first 1214 months and he gets to be 14 months old and he stops making any kinds of noises he stops speaking and he didn't speak again until he was five and now he won't shut up like he just talked Scott like he's probably called me four times since I've been talking to you he's a funny kid and Justin is absolutely positively the most important part of our family and that's because he has autism but he doesn't understand how to interact in social situations like he can't look somebody in the eye he doesn't know how to sit down at a table with a group of kids and have a conversation because all he wants to do is talk about himself he doesn't have friends he spends most of his time alone one day last May he called me from school 32 times in one day 32 times in eight hours and that's not because Justin didn't have anybody to talk to it's that no one would talk to him I could not process that then or now because Justin went to school with 2,000 kids there were 2,000 kids in his high school and at least another 150 adults walking around so while I can think in my mind is how can anybody be lonely in a building where there's over 2,000 people walking around how do we let that happen he's kind he's compassionate he's caring he's funny the invitations are not numerous when the child has autism let's just put it that way and Justin didn't get he didn't get invited to many places I'll never forget I'll never forget in sixth grade at Halloween and Justin had nobody to go with so he was up in his room and he didn't want us to take him and kids were coming and trick-or-treating right and I'll never forget this so kids are coming in trick-or-treating and I'm giving them candy and these two boys from his school Kevin and Cameron they showed up at the end of our driveway they just showed up they didn't call they just showed up and that was at the door and I saw them and they said mr. flood can just income trick-or-treating with us and they took him trick-or-treating they showed up no matter how high up on the food chain you think you are academically athletically socially artistically musically like we've all felt lonely in January I celebrated my fifth birthday without my mom and my mom was an awesome lady you know after Justin was born but even before he was born but more often after he was born in diagnosed with autism she used to say the same thing to me over and over again you guys know what the mom look is yeah everybody knows the mom look when they look at you right and you know onion like I mean we shut him down I like Nam God here it comes right we're like glowing no mom I know I know what you're gonna say I know you're gonna say so she got sick she was sick for a short period of time and she was a hospice volunteer and I've been one now she was one for 35 almost 40 years I'm with her upstairs in the bedroom and she's laying in the bed and I'm sitting with the chair sitting in the chair trying to keep the conversation light because I know this is probably gonna be the last time I see her so close with my mom and it she looked and what does she do she gives me the mom look and I looked at I'm like are you freakin kidding like you've been telling me this for 50 like I know what you're gonna say mom you know I said it I like was like I didn't want to hear like I was just like come on I'm mean let's talk about something and she looks at me and she goes that's great David cuz I'm gonna tell you one more time she looked at me and she said your life is not about you your life's not about you your life is about Justin your life's about Sarah your life's about Mary your wife your life's about your brothers and sisters and your friends and your family and the kids you get to go out and talk to stop thinking your life is about you like if your life we're about you you could take this and go live in a cave but you can't you need people your life's about all the people around you that you can teach and touch and impact and influence but mostly it's about all the people that love you and all the people that you love can you just show up can you show up for a kid with autism can you show up for a kid who doesn't speak the language can you show up for a kid who shot can you just show up that's all you're gonna do is just show up for somebody else you