April is Autism Awareness Month over the weekend.

The Greater Louisville Association of Realtors partnered with another group to educate their members about working with people who are neurodivergent.

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Autism is something that a lot of people kind of forget about.

Unfortunately, I think because it's not necessarily a disability you can see.

And so I think that that's something that is really important to highlight, especially for our members, because they are dealing with all kinds of different populations within our community.

I'm doing trainings on bullying.

I'm coming to corporations and working with them on the education piece.

When we educate, then that acceptance piece is comes to play.

And it's really important to me that us as a community and a society embrace individuals with differences.

We have our autism friendly business initiative that was born in 2016.

So we do partner with businesses in the area.

So basically it's just, a small snippet of real time, an individual with autism going to a restaurant and, you know, hearing from a doctor's perspective of what is autism?

What does that look like?

And then the individual in the video that sometimes is talking, but also showing what it also might look like.

Sometimes those characteristics aren't always verbal.

You saw him fidgeting with his hands, rocking back and forth, flipping a light switch, slamming a door.

The sensory simulations where they go through a series of stations and they get to see what it feels like to have a limitation, whether they're a child or adult.

I always hear I'm frustrated.

I couldn't do this every day.

But individuals with disabilities and limitations, they don't have a choice.

With autism spectrum disorder, it just makes me want to learn more about it, immerse myself in it so that if I do encounter a person who has children, who has sensitivities, sensory issues, or things like that, I can apply all those tools that I've learned and use it to ultimately help my client.

Not every realtor needs to know every single, you know thing about neurodivergent, but being able to have those resources that they can point the families in the right direction, I think is crucial.

It's just also another, awareness that I think people need to have in whenever they're encountering others with neurodiverse.

Just knowing how to communicate with them, how to interact with them, being a little more inclusive with people that deal with that.

But for me, it's just treat everybody the way they should be treated.

One of the things that I really promote, and a lot of my trainings, especially for the younger population, is be kind to be a friend, you know, because we never know what someone is coming to the table with.

According to recent numbers from the U.S. centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, an estimated one and 31 children have autism.