Residential treatment center

Oh, big

... to be in the residential treatment facility, and I think, I think it can be traumatic for anybody, but I think the-

Right

... having ASD can make it even more traumatic, like all the, the sensory stuff and the sounds.

And we also have a blog post that you wrote, um, Anorexia on the Spectrum, that kind of walks through that after the recovery, finding out that Josie was on the spectrum.

And looking back on your journey, I think it's really interesting, and we'll link that in the show notes for anyone who wants to read it.

And I- I just wanna acknowledge, Josie, that must have been hard to be there at the residential treatment center for that long, feeling so overwhelmed and kind of invalidated, it sounds like.

It was ...

This story is called We Won.

In a prior episode, I talked about when I was director of a residential treatment center in Westchester County, New York, called St. Christopher's.

This was in the early 1990s.

Eighty-four teenage males and females lived there in cottages.

But, and we're, we're,

We're all on the same page, especially the teachers that have been at RTF, like facilities that have lockdown that's all year round.

So they've seen it all.

Like they've done what, they work with kids that come from Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or Johnstown or Chester.

Yeah.

Another thing that we should include is did you, just because we're talking about all of this and way back in the day, I, when I worked at a RTF, um, like the special education school within the RTF, I would make Play-Doh with the kids.

Do you ever make Play-Doh? Like the homemade Play-Doh recipe? Like the

Salto Play-Doh or whatever it is.