DJEagles Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Wow, I was watching NBC the other night, and there was a news story about a hichly functioning autistic teenager, who was the manager of his high school basketball team. Appearantly the coach made a promise to let him in the final game of his senior year. Well, he put him in, and the kid hit not one, but six consecutive three-pointers tying a school record. The video was simply amazing...inspirational... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Indeed, it was something everyone should see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk13 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 is their a clip of this video anywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGF3p-W6JLg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jogar84 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I've heard about it, but being autistic doesnt necesarily mean you are retared physically or mentally. Just means you developed at a later stage. Some autsitic kids are geniouses. Nice story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bravesj858 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I've heard about it, but being autistic doesnt necesarily mean you are retared physically or mentally. Just means you developed at a later stage. Some autsitic kids are geniouses. Nice story. i wish everyone understood that...it's just diffrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJEagles Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 I agree 100%. I was not trying to point out the teen's handicaps, I just thought it was an unbelievable story. As someone who has an uncle with down's syndrome, I realize there is different degrees of autism, etc. This boy, who admitted to having a "learning difficulty", was amazing to watch on the basketball court. He had never played competiveley, and to do what he has done, was nothing short of amazing. Please excuse any speeling mistakes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEric Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 The fact that he was able to interact so well with the team shows that he's high-functioning. A big thing with autism is communication and social interaction, which means a lot of otherwise capable kids get pushed off to the side because they don't work well with others. I work in a group home, and my fiancee is working with kids in special education programs, so we have a lot of experience. Our group home recently had a guy with Asperger's stay with us for five months. Humor, metaphors, any sort of non-literal language was an issue for him to deal with. Also, his sensory perceptions were off-the-wall. He was almost like Daredevil. --Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I had tears streaming down my face when i saw this on Sportscenter. I love that the caoach cared and wasn't affraid to show emotion, I loved that the school supported him, when instead they could have derided him and I love that the other school guarded him. His shots were contested. The best was when the story was over and the camera goes back tt eh studio and ESPN's John Anderson stands there barley able to speak, his eyes red with tears and all he says is "I love sports." Before the his voice cracks and the tears overflow the dams that were his eyelids and to commercial they cut. Those real-life moments are what make sports inspirational. Greatest sports story ever. Mike and Mike on ESPN radio had this discussion a few days ago and it was overwhellming... greatest ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmariner Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 What a great story. I saw the ESPN interview and he said " the hoop looked like a big garbage can". Sounds like they might turn his life story into a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwinginSoriano Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Hopefully not into a lousy made for TV movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bravesj858 Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 hopefully, it's also free of negative autism sterotyping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriegz Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Hopefully not into a lousy made for TV movie. You can see it on Lifetime in 07, I'm calling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bravesj858 Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 i will probaly watch it under one condtion...they don't depict autism as a tradedy that nobody wants their loved ones to have, and that autistics are useless unless they are trained to be like everyone else (aka, only one mold of person can live). this movie should be postive about jason and all the others like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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