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My favorite moment of today was helping
those kids at the center.
I can feel their struggles.
But they haven't-- they have the words in their head,
but they just can't say it.
Yeah, do you remember what that felt like?
I felt like a ball stuck in your throat.
Doesn't it get frustrating?
Yeah, it does get frustrating after a while.
You're lucky because you've got language.
But there are kids at your age that still can't speak.
Do I have autism still?
Do you feel like you still have autism?
Yeah, sometimes I do, but sometimes I don't.
What do you mean? When do you--
When I act a little crazy, that's-- sometimes,
when I start to cry and feel sensitive, that's when
I feel like I have autism.
What about friendship?
Then it kind of feels like I have autism too.
When I act like cool around friends, at that moment,
I don't seem I really have it then.
But do you sometimes feel like you don't have friends
because you have autism?
-Yeah. -You do?
Yeah, sometimes I see people don't like me sometimes
because I have autism.
Right, when you were little, you
were really having a hard time connecting and making friends.
They didn't understand who you were, right?
Yeah.
What did they ask you to say?
I effed you in the *** hole.
Are you kidding me?
You had boys that were sending you up to girls
saying disgusting things?
They'd make me go in the girls' bathroom.
I did it to make friends.
Anytime you have someone that doesn't really understand you,
they're not going to really know how to love you,
because they don't who you are.
I don't want you to feel sad about not having 25,
30 friends, because you only really need
one or two good friends, right?
Yeah.
Mom has Auntie Terri.
-I have Wonder. -You have Wonder.
--who always looks out for me.
Would Wonder ever put you in a bad position, where
you were either in harm's way or you
did something inappropriate?
He would never do that.
No.
That's a real friend.
That is how you judge who is your friend-- who
has your back, who's looking out for you.