Teen With Asperger’s Syndrome Teaches Bullies Who Beat Him Up A Life Lesson

#1 A teenager with Asperger’s was attacked for being different. Instead of pressing charges he has taught the bullies a lesson about seeing life through someone else’s eyes.

#2 This is Gavin Joseph from Illinois. He was beaten up by a gang of strangers after they heard some people talking about how he was ‘weird’ and always by himself.

#3 Gavin was tricked into meeting the group, who then surrounded him. He was ‘choked, punched, and left laying on the pavement so he would “learn his lesson”.

#4 'Hear it from his perspective': Gavin, pictured with a friend, asked that his attackers make an effort to hear more about his condition

#5 Gavin is pictured center.

#6 But rather than press charges against the bullies, Gavin is hoping to raise awareness about his condition.

Stone wrote that he requested for their community service to be disability-related, that they write a paper on Asperger's, and that they should watch a 20-minute video statement "he taped while their families were present so they could see the damage they did and hear the event from his perspective."

Gavin's story is spreading through the internet after it was shared by Susan Moffatt, the mother of a friend of Gavin's. Moffatt's post has been shared over 140,000 times.