He Makes the Team
December 6, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
23-year-old Alex Kwan is autistic and the team manager for the West Albany High School football team. Yesterday’s Oregonian describes how, for Kwan, football has become a “safe haven, a place where he is embraced for his differences instead of mocked because of them.” That’s real teamwork, yes?
Awesomeness! So good to hear of acceptance instead of criticism and hate!
What a fantastic story. I think that it also shows the influence that even one caring person can have on someone’s life- that coach sounds like he’s pretty wonderful.
Yeah yeah,so what.
It’s people like this,who are held up as as an example,of what autism is.If you say you have autism,and are more severely disabled,people don’t get it,because stories like this are all they remember seeing.All it means to me,is that many people asking me why I am unable to work,because they read about someone like Alex Kwan.It puts you in a very awkward situation to say the least.