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06 Sept 2025
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Pictured below is Kevin Hanly (left) with Adam Harris (CEO of AsIAm) at the launch #SameChance Report and #WorldAutismMonth Campaign of AsIAm.ie on March 30.
Kevin, speaking at the event on a panel discussion, said: "I was so lucky to have Sologhead GAA and Tipperary footballers in my life. They gave me the same chance to believe in myself!
"60% of people say they don’t understand autism. If people can accept and give people with autism that chance, it is amazing what can be done in our communities. When I was younger, I didn’t have friends, I didn’t know how to socialise. I was in primary and secondary school; I didn’t know how to connect with people.
"I got comfortable in my own skin and just being around myself. I didn’t find I had a friendship or a social aspect to life. In my teenage years, I was developing and learning about myself and autism. I have known since I was three or four, I have always been autistic, it has always been a part of me and my life.
"I don’t know any different. Going through life that was always a hurdle or barrier. When I got involved going to matches, I opened myself up to people and got chatting and got to have a social aspect that wasn’t there when I was a child/teenager."
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