Sports and autism

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I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos with people with special needs who do great things for their community especially sports. An autistic boy led the little league team to a major championship in Cooperstown with a walk off home run and a MMA fighter with down syndrome refusing to quit his dream. While I may not be a baseball player or a MMA fighter, I wish there is a place for people with autism like myself be involved behind the scenes in the sports world since I have unlimited knowledge of the subject. It's been my dream for decades to work with the Seattle Seahawks whether it would be as an equipment manager or the flag waver. I would like to be involved in professional sports someway with the bigger professional teams of the Emerald City. Do you guys know of any job where it doesn't require me to have a college diploma to find employment for the Mariners and/or Seahawks organizations? I would be thrilled if I were given the opportunity to be apart of Seattle sports.

At 31 you probably have another job that takes up your time, so why don't you contact the Seahawks organization (phone or in person) and ask if they have any volunteer work you can do. Spend any free time you have, after hours or on weekends, getting to know the organization and then at some point it gives you a footing to apply for any paid work that might come up.

JML101582,
there is an organisation who woud apreciate that knowledge and the fact are autistic; why not be a volunteer at a special olympics club?
we have had aspie members like jerry hatake do this.

its possible coud also be an athlete if live in the right area.
the special olympics clubs are only open to intelectualy disabled athletes;however a very small number of sports clubs in the US are affiliated with the special olympics-they arent a SO group [but offer SO competing to those who meet ID critiria], as a result people without intelectual disability can be part of it.

am a SO athlete,competing for a cheshire swim team,and also a bury team in boccia-there are a lot of autistics in both teams.
also do adapted cycling;using a specialist semi recumbent bike at a special club that allows us to ride in a safe environment [a athletics track].