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Thread #136820   Message #3126368
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
01-Apr-11 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: April is Autism awareness month
Subject: RE: BS: April is Autism awareness month
My niece has Asperger's, a type of mild autism. Bless her, she's doing extremely well at University with a lot of support from her tutors and fellow students, but life is not easy for her, as she finds interacting with others difficult. She can be a little strange and comes out with odd remarks and behaviour, but she is almost genius level in Maths, and plays the piano to concert standard, performing concertos with orchestras etc. It's brilliant Wesley and Ebbie that you both work to help folk with autism and their families. We all need to learn more about the condition and how to give support. Also, more research is needed into the causes.