Heroic Autistic Boy Saves Mum's Life - Honoured At Awards

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From the Brighton & Hove Argus (UK)

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generaln ... remony.php

Wow that is great!! !

The same thing happened here a little while back: a young autistic boy rang the ambulance and subsequently saved his mother.

Extreme situations "break" the autistic walls, a few months back I called the police after a car accident I was involved in; I would never do such under other circumstances, i.e., I get my mother to call the police to ask questions for me concerning misc. stuff. Also, I spoke my first [grammatically incorrect] sentence for the first time when I was five after hurting myself and requiring stitches.

Why is this so amazing? I mean it's wonderful that he saved her - don't get me wrong. It's just that people act so surprised when someone with some disorder does something reasonable. It might have been unusual for him, but dire situations will make anybody do unusual things.
Props to the kid, but he's just another person doing what people do: whatever they have to.

I think it's great - just proves that there is 'something there', and that not all autistics are 'psychos'.

In that same paper last week there was a story about an Asperger's girl - aged 5 - who had been excluded from school for punching her teacher. Her mother was saying how glad she was because it meant that finally she might get some govt help and be allowed into a special school where they could cope with her needs, as she'd been fighting for the past year to get her funding for the help she needed to get on in school, as she was very bright but couldn't cope with school. The comments left on the story made me feel sick, I was so upset to read how ignorant and nasty people can be.

So I'm really glad they've run this story.

I think the kid's fantastic - not everyone could do what he's done.

Great kid!

Awesome kid!