We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful MARCUS BOYD. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with MARCUS below.

MARCUS, appreciate you joining us today. How did you get your first job in the field that you practice in today?

I became a autism activist almost 6 years ago a childhood friends of mine who has a son that has serve autism and he is non verbal wanted me to go and give my testimony at her church about my life autism and how God blessed me to speak the journey I went on to be able to speak and the things I am doing now. At first I thought she was out her mind all I wanted was for her to take me to wal mart didn’t ask to be a public speaker plus I’m in through music scene in Atlanta and you want me to go around telling people that I have autism at that time I didn’t see how that would help my career or brand with dealing with music I remember clear as day it was rainy real hard and she told me if I don’t go to church and share my testimony on how has been Good to me and how he saved me and help me to become the man I am today then she was going to make me get out on the highway and leave me, so at first I thought she east playing but when she pulled over on the highway and said you can get out right here my heart east pounding and then I said OK OK I will go to your church she asked me was I serious was I playing and I said no I would be honored to go to her church so that next Sunday she picked me up I went to her church I loved the music the choir was singing and how the people reacted to new visitors to my surprise the pastor was already aware of who I was and my work and when he said we have someone special here with us to talk about a very important issue in or homes and community Autism and he called my name so after I was done with my speech a lot of people came up to me to ask questions to give me praise and to give encouragement for me to keep moving forward it was at that moment where I realized that their are millions of voices that a unheard and many stories that’s untold so I decided then to use my story and testimony as a tool to help push for more justice better laws and rights and to brief more benefits for Autism families and individuals

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am Marcus Leonardo Boyd who is a 40 year old man who has Autism proudly, my work consist of me being a Autism Activist a International Keynote Speaker also I have a clothing line called the A Collection and I have a shoe line called G soles shoes which is the very first spiritual tennis shoes and I have a coloring book and I am a music producer and composer and I am a professional Dj , I have been a autism activist going 6 years now I was given a opportunity to speak at a church after that it changed my life so I decided to dedicate my life to help make things better for autism and autism families it became my passion my work and my dream for people to see Autism in a different and accept those who are autistic more and give us a fair chance. I got I to music when I was around 4 to 5 years old I was non verbal with serve Autism so I didn’t the lyrics or sounds and sounds bothered me but it was a lot of the melodies and harmonies I use to hear that put me in a trace it east something I never heard before it was like a drug I wanted more of, so when I got around 9 to 10 years old that’s when I went to my first band camp in to state new York back then summer camps use to be 2 to 3 months so my sister big patti went with me to help me communicate and help me to understand the things I needed to do so long story short my sister wanted me to learn a big instrument I didn’t want to do it at first but what do you tell someone who is over 6 feet so I learned the instrument and the type of band camp I was at the way they was playing the music and how they was creating I wanted to be like them so I got real focused on music

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Growing up for me wasn’t a easy road you have to understand being raised between the 80s and 90s it was much different back then, I come from judgement bullying, mistreatment isolation being displaced having been in 16 to 17 mental institutions in 4 different states and having been in 16 to 17 foster homes from the ages of 4 to 20 years old being group homes outpatient centers being homeless for years going state to state being homeless eating out of dumpsters sleeping in abandoned houses for months with nothing going to men shelters and sleeping on concrete next to man that will doo doo or pee on your bags and next to you but to answer through question for me it goes back to when I was 4 years old and my birth father came home.from work with his normal route that was yelling cursing wanting his hot dinner and some liquor and if he didn’t get it like he wanted it then it would be horrific abuse on my birth mom so on this day I guess I was breathing to hard or I was in his way or he same me and he felt disgusted so when he saw me he asked my birth mom what is this slow mother Fuxxer doing in my living room I thought I told you to keep him where I can’t see him so because she didn’t respond fast enough for him he snatched me and drugged me outside in the front yard and he then pushed me and hit me in my chest and went to his red truck that was parked in the front yard and he got his gun and he put the gun in my mouth and he then pulled the trigger but the gun kept jamming every time he tried the gun jammed so he got really upset and he kept hitting me with the gun blood was getting every where now my birth mom was on the steps didn’t move and didn’t say nothing now the neighbor came out with his trash and then he seen what was going on and he ran to fight off my birth father he told me run inside his house his wife seen me and locked all their doors and windows and called the police so other neighbors seen this and called the police as well so it was a lot of cops and people in our front yard the ambulance took me away and that experience Gave me a spirit of no one can break me with God anything is possible

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I was taught as a child that your family will always be their for you and your friends will ride for you but to be honest that’s not always true with people you have to judge them based off their character and personality see I have been burned by family and supposed to be friends I mean for me people really showed me their butt I was close to them I would give them things I would be a shoulder when they had issues and I would ride for them when they was in trouble but when it came for me they lifted me in the wind so what I had to learn is put your trust and faith in God not man because man will let you down but God never will

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