Autism

What It's Like Living With Autism: a Nine-Year Old Explains

Sun 12 Jan 2020

George is a 4th grader from North Carolina who wrote, narrated and created a soundtrack for a charming video that explains what it's like for him to live with Autism for the benefit of his classmates. It has been viewed on YouTube more than 1 million times since November 2017.

Watch the video.

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