{"id":1840228,"date":"2023-02-08T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840228"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:07:24","slug":"wouldnt-have-it-any-other-way-brendan-fraser-gets-emotional-talking-about-raising-autistic-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wouldnt-have-it-any-other-way-brendan-fraser-gets-emotional-talking-about-raising-autistic-son\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wouldn\u2019t Have It Any Other Way\u2019: Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional Talking About Raising Autistic Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwouldnt-have-it-any-other-way-brendan-fraser-gets-emotional-talking-about-raising-autistic-son%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Brendan Fraser became emotional while talking about raising his autistic son and said despite struggling with his child\u2019s diagnosis when he was just 22 months old, he \u201cwouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a Sirius XM interview \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howardstern.com\">The Howard Stern<\/a> Show,\u201d The 54-year-old actor talked about Griffin&#8217;s fatherhood, recalling how he would give autistic individuals special attention at fan events. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/brendan-fraser-gets-emotional-talks-about-son-with-autism\/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&#038;utm_content=new&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_term=63e2d4311b86500001ad6aaa\">People magazine<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter all of the noise surrounding the hysteria that goes into the whole celebrity bulls***, I always, always stop the train to have a moment with them,\u201d Fraser explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause my oldest son is autistic, and I know how meaningful it is to their families and to them,\u201d He added. \u201cIt means a lot to feel like you can gratify someone just by showing up, it means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrendanFraser?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BrendanFraser<\/a> is opening up about his son&#8217;s journey with Autism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TFUqzxrrJ3\">pic.twitter.com\/TFUqzxrrJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Access Hollywood (@accesshollywood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/accesshollywood\/status\/1623353585277829121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I found out my kid\u2019s diagnosis at 22 or 24 months, it was earlier on, [I was] crestfallen to say the least,\u201d Fraser continued. \u201cThe first reaction that I had was, \u2018I want to know how to fix this. What\u2019s the cure? What does this mean?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Whale\u201d star said it felt like he had been \u201chit with a baseball bat in the back of the side of the head,\u201d and said he started blaming himself over the \u201creasons why,\u201d thinking it was maybe his \u201cgenealogy\u201d or \u00a0because he \u201csmoked weed in college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like trying to get a straight answer out of a f***ing leprechaun,\u201d Fraser explained, adding that he eventually learned that it\u2019s \u201cfor reasons unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you learn quickly that I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way,\u201d he added. \u201cThis kid has the most joy onboard of anyone I know, and he happens to be related to me as my son. I want to know what he thinks is so gut-bustingly funny all day long, in a genuine way and he\u2019s cracking himself up. He loves to go for a ride in the car. It doesn\u2019t matter where you\u2019re taking him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would sit on, he would go on a big airplane and ride commuter flights between here and Philly all day, if he could, because that\u2019s what brings him joy,\u201d Fraser continued.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser shares three kids with ex-wife actress Afton Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Fraser became emotional while talking about raising his autistic son and said despite struggling with his child\u2019s diagnosis when he was just 22 months old, he \u201cwouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\u201d During a recent Sirius XM interview on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show,\u201d the 54-year-old actor discussed being the father to 20-year-old son Griffin, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1763659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6555,8619,10970,8617,10323,8647,6211,10075,9118],"class_list":["post-1840228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-autistic","tag-brendan","tag-emotional","tag-fraser","tag-raising","tag-son","tag-talking","tag-way","tag-wouldnt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}