Welcome to FASD Family Life the podcast for families by families where we get real about raising children and youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. I’m your host, Robbie Seale, FASD Educator, advocate and mom of four children with FASD. I know the struggle is real, but so is success. I hope that sharing my experiences can help you feel that you are not alone and that there is hope for you and your child with FASD.
Here we are, my friends, episode 46 of the FASD Family Life podcast. Whether this is your first episode or your 46th, I am grateful to be spending this time with you again today.
I welcome you to join me for a hot cup of coffee as we settle in and listen to Tim Manson, a 52 year old Indegenous man with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. I think it important to listen to individuals with FASD and learn from their lived experience. As Tim recounts some of his life circumstances from his birth in the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation as the 14th child to Rosemary Charie and Willie Manson, to growing up in fostercare, re-connection with family, homelessness, addiction, having his own business and sobriety you will hear the importance of family and friendship in his life. Tim proudly states, "I am a survivor."
If you would like learn more about Tim Manson, please contact the Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre where he has volunteered for years, https://www.tillicumlelum.ca/contact-us/
I want you to know that you are not alone. I and the FASD Family Life podcast is here for you. Do you have a question you would like me to address on the show or a topic suggestion? Email your comments, questions and topic suggestions to FASDfamilylife@gmail.com.
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