Max Parvin

Yeah, and yeah, yeah.

I think that, um, just personally for me, and I, I love Max.

He's one of the best kids, and he's such an amazing student athlete, which I think the athlete part of this is why, you know, he's been able to maintain so much resilience and so, and, and keep persevering, because that's what you do on the field, too.

And so he found all of those wins, um, in athleticism.

Absolutely.

Uh, but yeah.

But for me, I think the value of having experts understand how we can retrain the brain to be able to read and write, and it's never too late.

You say that all the time.

Never too late.

And yeah, never too late.

And so from my personal experience, my grandmother, who was more like a mom to me growing up, they would pick us up from school and then take us shopping at, like, the Family Dollar in Laurel, Mississippi.

And I starkly remember these huge football player looking guys coming up to my grandmother in the store and saying, "Ms.

Richey, can I give you a hug?" With sometimes a tear in their eye.

"You're the only reason that I learned to read." My grandmother was initially, you know, she went to three different colleges, couldn't find the fit that she wanted, and then we're talking about a woman who, uh, survived polio as well.

[laughs]

And so she is the definition of resilience, too.

And so then she moved to Florida, didn't know anybody, became a social worker just for the heart of people, and then she wanted to become an educator.

And then she got whatever the equivalent would be of a, a master's in, like, reading specialty back in the '70s.

Yeah.

I don't really know what that would've been.

Probably a reading specialist.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, maybe.

Yeah.

Yeah.