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I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

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Clay Aiken
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 30
Actor
Musician
Politician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Raleigh
North Carolina
Clayton Holmes Aiken
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Autism
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Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
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But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
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If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day. You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.
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If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.
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I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!
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I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
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It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
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I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.
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I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.
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When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.
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I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
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I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
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The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.
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I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.
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I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
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It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.
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