have an average life expectancy 13 years shorter than their peers who do not have the disorder. Approximately 25% will develop clinical depression, and about 50% develop an anxiety disorder. As many as 80% will have additional mental health diagnoses including learning disabilities.

Sam Fashho has been in the clothing and fashion industry – the rag trade – for most of his life. Clothes have given him a life, helped him raise his family, enabled him to own multiple businesses. Prior to the oil collapse of the 1980s that turned everything around, he owned five clothing stores on Texas Street.

say if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism. Each case comes with a varying set of deficits that impairs a person’s ability to communicate or interact with others.