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Sharing care: how autism surfs helped one boy

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Sharing care: how autism surfs helped one boy

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Gatlin has autism, and like many with autism, doesn’t get to experience the same activities as other kids. Autism Surfs changed that. All summer long, this organization gives Gatlin and other kids the opportunity to have fun and be themselves.

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