There’s only one thing Christian Larsen wanted – to have a birthday party for his ninth birthday to which he could invite all of his friends. It seems simple enough, but there was one hurdle – Larsen has autism, and therefore doesn’t have as many friends as his peers. ...
High School can be pretty tough, so getting your diploma at graduation is pretty satisfying. For people with autism, just attending their high school graduation can be challenging. This was the case for 21-year-old Jack Higgins, who has severe autism and hates loud noises. Dreaming of going to ...
We all love our pets, and it’s heartbreaking that there are so many out there without a home. One boy wanted to change this, deciding that he would find a way to make pets at shelters more desirable for adoption. Overcoming the odds Darius Brown from Newark, New Jersey, is no ordinary ...
In the past few months, the issue of some kids not being able to afford school lunch has popped up in the news a few times, and even though there are laws protecting these kids, some of them still get “lunch shamed” because they can’t pay. When 9-year-old Ryan Kyote saw a ...
Any kid would be upset if they’ve been looking forward to visiting a theme park only to find out that the machinery is malfunctioning and they have to turn around and go home. One can only begin to imagine how a kid with autism would react to the abovementioned scenario – and it did ...
Let’s be honest: Most of us quiver at the thought of having a needle stuck into us. Some doctors like to joke about having to catch their patients first before they’re able to inject them, while some doctors even admit to being scared of those long, pointy objects themselves. One ...
We live in an age where kids grow up with computers and cellphones – everything is visual and not much is left to the imagination. It’s no wonder that many kids don’t like reading or writing – if you can just watch the movie, why read the book? And if there are already ...
It’s no secret that parents will do absolutely anything for their children, especially when they’re in danger. The fierce protectiveness that is a natural byproduct of being a parent proved itself once again when a man saved his daughter from a shark by literally punching it in the ...
Two young girls from Lexington, North Carolina, are making a difference in their hometown, one cup of lemonade at a time. According to Today, they’ve been using a lemonade stand their mother bought them last year to raise money for good causes, the first of which was the local hospice ...
Most of us who went to college had some student debt to pay after we graduated. It can take several years, sometimes even decades, to pay it all off. Luckily, for the students of the Morehouse College class of 2019, a billionaire has offered to pay all their outstanding student debt. Now ...
