A Mother s Prayer Is Answered by a Special Friendship - by Carol Trimmer
An autistic child finds his first true comrade in a very unlikely setting.
The school bus stopped at the corner to drop off my 11-year-old son.
I watched from our front
window,...
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A Mother s Prayer Is Answered by a Special Friendship - by Carol Trimmer
An autistic child finds his first true comrade in a very unlikely setting.
The school bus stopped at the corner to drop off my 11-year-old son.
I watched from our front
window, praying he’d had one of his good days.
But even before the bus doors hissed open, I heard Justin screaming.
Oh, Lord, what’s happened
now? I thought, flinging open our door.
He ran toward the house hunched over, his head down so I couldn’t see his face—only the hair on
top of his head.
He was shaking his arms and swinging his lunchbox like a club.
In a lot of ways, Justin was a typical fourth grader.
He went to a public school.
He liked music and
swimming, played Little League baseball, excelled at board games and loved animals.
But he also had autism, a brain development disorder that could sometimes make him hard to be
around.
Justin barged past me, ripped off his backpack and threw himself on the living room floor,
screaming,
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