Brendan Fraser has recalled his devastation after his younger son was recognized with autism earlier than his second birthday.
Talking to The Howard Stern Present, the 54-year-old stated it felt like he was “hit with a baseball bat” on the top when informed of Griffin’s situation a few years in the past.
“Once I discovered my child’s prognosis at 22 or 24 months, I used to be crestfallen, to say the least,” the Whale star stated on the present, as per Individuals. “The primary response that I had was, ‘I wish to know how you can repair this. What is the remedy? What does this imply?'”
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The actor admitted it took some time to come back to phrases with Griffin’s prognosis as a result of “this is not the way in which it is imagined to prove”.
“You blame your self and also you suppose, ‘My family tree’ or ‘I smoked weed in school.’ You begin blaming your self over the the explanation why,” he recalled.
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It took some time however now Fraser says he has a distinct outlook on Griffin’s autism and he “would not have it every other manner”.
The actor stated that Griffin, now 20, even helped him dive into his character of Charlie on The Whale – a reclusive and overweight English instructor who makes an attempt to reconnect together with his estranged teenage daughter.
“[Griffin] simply turned 20. He is an enormous child, he is 6-foot-5 [195cm]. He is acquired large fingers and ft, an enormous physique. I perceive intimately what it’s to be near an individual who lives with weight problems,” Fraser informed Interview journal final November.
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“He does not know what cynicism is. You possibly can’t insult him. He cannot insult you. He is the happiest particular person and is, in my life and plenty of others.”
Griffin is the eldest of Fraser’s three sons who he shares together with his ex-wife, actress Afton Smith, 55. Additionally they share sons Holden, 18, and Leland, 16.
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