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It's with great pleasure that I'm going to ask Torkelson to come up here, because he's a hero to the autism community, to all of the families, and he's a personal hero to me. So thank you.

Applause.

Well, thanks for this fantastic introduction.

Thanks for the opportunity to come here. Thanks for organizing all this

being in the Botanical Garden, I'd like to start with a plant that is pretty well known in Denmark.

It's called the dandelion, loved by kids.

They make necklaces, they blow dandelions, they paint each others in the faces. Will with the dandelion.

But when you go grow older, your own norms are being replaced by society's norms. 

And if you buy a house with a garden and you see a dandelion, what do you see?

Often, the love turns to hate, because now it's it's a weed, because the lawn has to be just as perfect as the neighbors, and only the flowers that you have decided are welcome in your garden.