A little more than two years ago, Ting Perlis, a Glendale teen with autism, said she didn’t know what to do with her life and wondered if she would ever go to college. I didn’t think she had any secret talent,” Deborah Perlis said. “I remember my daughter telling me, ‘When I sing, nobody sees the autism,’” Deborah Perlis said. When that happened, Ting Perlis began “screaming her head off” at the director and then ran out of the audition room, Deborah Perlis recalled. But now, Deborah Ting said she can’t believe someone who was knocking over desks and having meltdowns is headed to Carnegie Hall.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 15, 2017 03:00 UTC