Autistic twins Alex and Jamie started running at 15, and haven’t stopped since
These twins with severe autism have run in over 400 races and 26 marathons
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Parents Allen and Robyn Schneider
“It’s a release of their energy, it gives them something to focus on,
getting to the finish line,
or just the act of running and whatever’s going on inside each of them and they’re both very different in terms of personality and what they get out of running.
So we’re not really sure what that is because they can’t express themselves, but they both love to do it.”
Their parents love running with them
“They’re low on the spectrum, they’re non-verbal they both have self-injurious behaviours.
Running has just opened up such a world for them and for us.
We can’t do an awful lot with our sons because of their level of autism.
But this we can do and we all enjoy it and we’re all getting great health benefits from it so far.
When we first got the diagnosis, we didn’t really know what autism was, I really didn’t know the level and extent and anything.
As any special needs parent in our position would say, It’s affected us in a lot of negative ways, but some positive.
The whole running aspect, that’s the positive, really positive part of it.
There’s an unspoken bond going on as we’re running that I don’t get anywhere else with him.
It’s one of the only activities I can do with him and he enjoys it.
And it’s hard, it’s really hard, raising children with autism.
Their level of autism doesn’t get spoken about very often,
And you might hear inspirational things about certain individuals
But the hard reality is a lot of kids out there that aren’t doing great things, but the parents still have to live with this difficult issue of raising young kids into adulthood with a very severe level of autism, so it’s a forgotten community really and if we can do anything as far as that goes, we shine a light on that in some fashion, and maybe for funding, maybe for more awareness.
And if our notoriety in some way brings help to this community, that’s what we strive to do.
So please share this video, share it amongst everybody, get it out there.
For our community, the special needs community, I think we have to get on board and be politically active.
In some way, research the issues, research the candidates and candidates that have innovative ideas or that support different funding for our kids and families.
I think you have to get off your seat and vote your interests otherwise nothing’s ever going to change.”
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