Favorite Child
By the age of 12, Jake was thriving. He had been profiled in the Indianapolis Star, was enrolled in college-level math classes, and was already being scouted for research positions. Soon after, Jake’s first paper was published in an academic journal. News outlets flocked to Jake’s feel-good story: a child prodigy countering stigmas against autism. But behind the scenes, there was something the media didn’t know.
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