Looking toward the future (The Times)

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Looking toward the future

December 16, 2007
By Mary Jimenez
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Channing Ewing doesn't quite know how to define autism for himself.

The 20-year-old, who grew up simply knowing he didn't fit into the norm, was diagnosed with high-functioning autism less than four years ago.


Autism is one group of disorders on the autism spectrum disorders.

"It does have some limits on me," Channing said of his autism, which he knows has given him a few eccentricities. "I keep things very clean, and I have some pet peeves."

But he thinks he's adapting pretty well to life. Channing works and goes to college. He was hired onto his first job in May at Bass Pro Shops at Louisiana Boardwalk and is taking classes at Bossier Parish Community College, both in Bossier City.

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I could not imagine how alot of you feel not being diagnosed until adult hood, I was fortunate to be DX'ed in the mid 1980's with autism, I knew my whole life, well... most of my life parents had to explain things but I did not even know much about it until I aactually came onto WP over the summer and learned soooo much more, I cant beleive I never even thought about that word throughout my life trying to fit in, and being here made me understand soooo much more.