My name is Samuel and I am 14 and in the ninth grade but home schooled. My mom thought I would learn a lot if I had to help other people. So she told me I had to come up with a project to help a needy group of people. The assignment was to help improve the lives of needy people. I have decided to help kids with autism because I have Asperger's syndrome.
I know how important a service animal can be, I have a service cat named “Hub”. He is actually my second service cat. My first one, Faith-Elizabeth, died about four years ago. She helped distract me when I got angry, she played with me, she helped me work out what I was going to say to my mom and other people. Now I have Hub and he does those things. Faith and Hub made me finally belong to my family. We had something in common, we all loved Hub and Faith.
That's why I have decided to start a service cat training program for kids with autism, kids like me. I'm not a parent of an autistic kid, I am an autistic kid. We are alone and we live in a world where no one understands us. I don't know how you feel but I know what my world looks like. Everyday I struggle to make sense of what other people say to me. I have watched my mom cry before when she gets too frustrated because she thinks I don't understand. I get upset then because I don't know why she cries. I wonder what I did wrong. But then she grabs Hub and hands him to me and she stops crying and I calm down. Hub is something we share. He helps me but he helps us be a family also. That's why I have to train other cats for kids. Every kid like me deserves to belong. You can visit my website at www.freewebs.com/tenerekingdom. There are instructions there about how you can help me with my project.
Friday, April 4, 2008
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What a beautiful thing you are doing Samuel!! I love cats and had no idea that they, too, could be service animals until I read what you wrote here. Wonderful job, Samuel!
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