A 10-Year-Old With Aspergers Was Asked To Write A Poem For School. This Is What He Wrote

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Benjamin Giroux is 10-years-old and has Asperger's Syndrome. He goes to Cumberland Head Elementary School which is in Plattsburgh, New York.

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The assignment for the week was to write a poem about yourself. The teacher told the students to begin the poem with "I am."

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While he barely talks, according to his parents, he was very enthusiastic about sitting down to write for this assignment. Seated at the kitchen table he went for it and didn't stop until a few hours later. He was finally finished and he then showed the poem to his parents. They immediately became very emotional over Benjamin's words.

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Here's what one of Benjamin's parents had to say about their child's poem:

"At first, we felt sad and hurt that he feels isolated, alone, misunderstood and odd at school. As the poem went on, we realized that he understands that he's odd and that so is everyone else in their own way, which is what Ben wants everyone to embrace."