After graduating from high school, an autistic young man challenges himself to run a 100-mile race. | dG1fYnlnbXZWbzhCVFU
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00:00 I love to run. I started running in middle school. In high school I ran for three years.
00:27 My best mile was a 5.09. My best two-mile was a 11.15. And my best 5k in cross-country
00:35 was 18.17.
00:40 When we first got the diagnosis of autism, my approach was, "How am I going to fix this?"
00:46 I guess I was kind of sad. You know, when you hear the diagnosis of autism, all kinds
00:50 of things go through your mind.
00:51 What am I going to do to help my boy so that he's happy and he's strong, that he can do
00:56 the things that all the other kids are doing?
01:02 The visions I had of going out and playing catch with my son, I didn't know what it was
01:06 going to be like.
01:10 All during his senior year, he really wanted to run a marathon. He kept asking me, "Mom,
01:17 I want to run farther. Two miles is just not enough. 5k is just not enough. I want to do
01:23 bigger races."
01:28 As we were walking away from the graduation ceremony, he turned to me and said, "Mom,
01:33 before my 20th birthday, I'm going to run a 100-mile race."
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