[alnick]

I work with a 17-year-old who is developmentally disabled, and I suspect that he has a touch of autism.

He loves weather reports. A couple of weeks ago we were watching the channel that rebroadcasts the local news over and over and over again all day long, and I would say to him, "Super Dopplar 6000" (or whatever it is), and that would make him giggle.

We watched the rebroadcast of the same news program for two and a half hours.

My older brother is clasically autistic, and he has certain things that he just loves, for reasons that nobody knows.

[Mfkmmof4]

One thing I did hear on tv that really broke my heart was he definition of autism. It is like someone came in during the night and stole your child's once working body. I cried buckets over that statement.