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06 Aug 2008, 12:47 pm

David Milatello the 9 year old boy with Asperger's is in Las Vegas and has made it through the first cuts there. Go kiddo!

America's Got Talent: David M.



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07 Aug 2008, 5:02 am

Yea and what a lucky boy, a girlfriend at such a young age, it's sweet how the little girl is so kind to him :)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEfiQS61Og[/youtube]



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07 Aug 2008, 7:40 am

yay goo David. I'm subscribed to his youtube page...


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07 Aug 2008, 7:57 am

He was diagnosed with autism and apparently didn't talk early on.

His second song was more severely out of tune than the first but I haven't seen any of the other kids so I can't compare his performance to theirs. The judges seemed to say something about that at the end.


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07 Aug 2008, 2:12 pm

Go David! :P

They let through an autistic "brother." :P


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