She was stumbling up the ramp to the Hall at the St. Agnes Special School, where the World Disabled Persons’ Day celebrations was being held in full swing. The crowd nearly shoving her from behind, this little visually challenged girl moved forward hesitantly. She did not have to worry too long, for the hand of an autistic child quietly reached out to her and confidently led the former up the ramp. Nobody had asked the autistic child to help her blind friend; she did it on her own.
The dictionary defines autism as "a mental condition in which a person is unable to communicate or form relationships with others," but such acts reinforce the belief that these children too have feelings and emotions that perhaps run deeper than those of ordinary human beings.
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