Hello I wanted to share a very inspiring story and a very neat friendship that
I've been the recipient of witnessing.

My son has epilepsy and is considered mildly handicapped. He has seizures
that are uncontrolled and we haven't any idea when they will happen.

Anyway today at summer school one of his best friends who is a young teen
with aspergers syndrome, was playing catch with him during their recreatiion
time. And my son went into a seizure. This young man, has witness some other seizures, and gotten help. But because of a seizure on the bus that both boys ride, and no one but the driver, we have taught the other boy how to use his magnet.

So today, for the first time after this. The other boy got the magnet out of the fanny pack, swiped my son with the magnet, in the proper way and returned it to the pack. Was waiting with my son, with his teacher and the rest of the class when the nurse and administrators all started arriving.

The really amazing thing is that he then gave a detailed list of what happened
to me and the nurse, when the nurse asked where the pack was he told her.
And that he had used the magnet, and all. She was so impressed too.

He did a fantastic job, its another example of when you prepare a child with autism for something they might need to know how to do. They can do it.

Donna