Acknowledgments

I would like to thank everyone that has helped me in order to make this project a success. I want to thank Mrs. Geheb, my topic expert, for helping me understand the kind of pressure kids with autism as well as Asperger's Syndrome (my form of autism) go through. Without her, I would not have been able to realize the differences many people with the same disorders could have and it took someone with a lot of experience to show me this. I also want to give thanks to Mr. Martin for helping me come up with ideas to make my project go further and give me places to find new statistics on the people with autism. I want to thank the people of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Autism Society of America for doing everything they could to help my project gain awareness for Autism and give me pride in what I've done to help spread knowledge of the disorders. I also want to thank my other friends as they supported and helped my ideas feel more maturely developed and kept giving me confidence and courage to explain my story with autism. Finally and most importantly, I would like to give a special thanks to my mom who was also my mentor for this project. She helped guide me through both this project and my life with autism and I would never have known as much as I did if it were not for her caring for me at my worst with Asperger's. My research made me realize just how thankful I am for my mother and what she has done for me to help me progress through life and this project and I could not have done any of this without her care for me.