My 10-year-old son starts to rap after someone on YouTube says Eminem is autistic. “I don’t know if Eminem is autistic or not,” I tell him. “He writes exactly what I think.”“He writes about stapling his teacher’s testicles to the desk,” I say. He sees others listening to and understanding his words, and his desire to speak and share ― to interact with the world ― grows in turn. The last six months of him rapping have changed his mindset, which is no small thing for an autistic child.

Source: Huffington Post December 15, 2018 15:22 UTC