Dani’s aunt revealed how she ended up being her caregiver before Love on the Spectrum stardom
'It was meant to be'
Dani is pretty much a Love on the Spectrum OG at this point. She’s been appearing on the Netflix show since it first began, and although she didn’t find a romantic partner through the series, she’s now happily in a relationship with her new man, Henry.
During Love on the Spectrum, people get to see Dani’s dating life play out, and in some episodes, she’s seen leaning on her uncle and aunt for support. They’re her caregivers, and have been for many years. Her aunt, Sandy, explained in an episode of Talk To Me Sis how their family situation came to be.
Dani from Love on the Spectrum’s aunt tells her story
Speaking to Connor’s mom, Lise, and Tanner’s mom, Nicci, during the podcast episode, Sandy explained how she came to be Dani’s caregiver.
After struggling with fertility issues and then planning on adopting but being unable to in the early 2000s, Sandy said she and her husband, Patrick, were “heartbroken.”
But, six months later, she said it turned out that everything was “meant to be.”
She and Patrick ended up becoming caregivers to Dani and her sister, Jessica, when their parents divorced.
Dani’s aunt explained how it was “really difficult for her sister to work with two children on the spectrum by herself.”
Both Dani and her older sister, Jessica, are on the spectrum.
Sandy’s younger sister (Dani and Jessica’s mother) is “still very much in their lives” and “lives close by,” she explained.
“We call them our girls because we share them… they’re both doing well,” Sandy said.
Dani and her sister are both on the spectrum
Love on the Spectrum star Dani was 11 years old when her parents divorced.
She has an older sister, Jessica, who is now married and lives in Michigan.
“She (Dani) was born in ’95, it was 2004, I think… she was 11 and Jessica was 13… Jessica was full-blown going through the puberty thing…” explained Dani’s aunt.
“Jessica’s autism is different than Dani’s, she has aspergers…” Sandy added.
Dani’s aunt continued to explain how she and Patrick noticed Dani’s incredible talent for animation from a young age.
She said: “From 11 to 14, when she first came to live with us, we started noticing all her great stuff she was creating, animation… she was using MS Paint, and regular computer software to create all this animation.”
Sandy and her husband, Patrick, then decided to get Dani a computer: “She took that software and it took about two weeks and she was off to the races with her animation, she was 14, she never had any formal training.”
Now, Dani has a wild net worth, as well as Netflix fame, and a thriving love life!
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