Avui the web Penjo d'Aquest nen history autistic in the first oportunitat that li gave to play basketball, he wondered all his colleagues, all persons present in the game, the entire school and I imagine all the people who have read his peculiar history.
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Jason McElwain nation on 1 October 1987 in Rochester, a suburbio of New York City. From very small shows a great passion for the sport of canasta, as well Extraño that no one who entered the institute is enrolara the Trojans in the row, the basketball team's center. From
ese momento, and during three years, J-Mac, which as I know his teammates, came punctual as a clock to all practices and games. Statistics controlled, distributed water, encouraged the players, but never played. The reasons? His short stature ... and Jason is autistic.
did not start talking until he was 5 years and even today has difficulty communicating, does not interpret the body language and lacks social skills calls. But these limitations compensates with tremendous willpower and some innate desire to improve.
So, despite the problems associated with their disability, the life of Jason was very similar to that of any other boy his age. But everything changed on 16 February, when the Trojans played the last regular season game against Spencerport. Coach Johnson that day, as a reward for hard work that had been going on for so long, making it reward you wanted to play.
started on the bench, but absent for the final 4 minutes of the meeting, and a lead of 20 points in its favor, it came as expected. Dressed in shirt number 52 and a ribbon to the hair, Jason entered the stadium to the cheers of a given tier, full to the brim.
A few seconds of his debut, received the ball and played a triple loop and did not touch. It was a real stone go. In the next attack his companions returned to assist and Jason was shot close to the basket ... which also entered. That was normal considering the circumstances surrounding the party, so anyone miss the bugs.
But fate is fickle, and that day our hero was destined to do great things. On the third possession they had, got the ball and played another triple from 7 meters, but this time came. The dream had become reality and the stands erupted in a thunderous ovation to congratulate him on what he had done.
What nobody knew at that time was that the display of Jason had just begun. In the next play, again ... to play another three-score again. Then, and almost no time to absorb what just happened, J-Mac came to shooting baskets from beyond the line of 6.25 and drive again. And were 3-pointers in less than a minute. People hallucinating. With reason.
The grandstand chanted his name, his teammates could not believe what they were watching and rivals ... well, rivals had enough with trying to stop the secret weapon that the Trojans had just put on track.
But they could not. It was impossible. When there were less than 2 minutes to the end of the match, Jason again received a ball on offense and, of course, is the play again. The kid was on a roll and pulled up the shoes. But the good thing is that score again. The same thing happened on the next play. And in the next, but this time the basket was 2 points. Jason had no sympathy for the rival, who saw scored his sixth triple at the buzzer marking the end of the meeting.
In just 4 minutes had scored 20 points, the record in school history. Needless to say, at the end of the game, the stands stepped on court to congratulate the hero of the day, he left the field on their shoulders.
With these rushes, the display of Jason had all the ingredients for end up becoming an urban legend that parents explain to their children for generations. But the "problem" was that one of the spectators who attended the meeting did a handheld camera and recorded the game.
Word of mouth did the rest, and the next day the major television networks broadcast images United States. So did the media world. It was such a hit that many media special devoted to the life of Jason, who ceased to be an ordinary kid to become a celebrity.
has since come to the Oprah Winfrey has met George Bush, Magic Johnson, has received ESPN prize awarded to the best sports moment of the year, has made the release of honor at a baseball game, have composed a song in his honor ... there are so many awards that would never end.
And is that the story deserves. It is worthy of a Hollywood movie, do not you think?. Well, actually, your parents have already reached an agreement with Columbia Pictures for this producer is responsible for carrying on the big screen the exploits of Jason. There are stories that deserve to be told and that of Jason McElwain, an autistic boy aged 17, is one of them.
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