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ACIS PETERS:

My brother Harry, he sometimes gives you real pain. He fights me a lot of times. But my brother does have something that's special, autism. And I've got Asperger's.

INTERVIEWER:

What does it mean, having Asperger's?

ACIS PETERS:

It means you're special and have problems at school.

SAMANTHA PETERS:

Acis didn't really start stringing words together until he was way going four years old. Prior to that, I got absolutely nothing. And he would simply use me as a prop to get things that he wanted rather than pointing. I couldn't get him to look at me for love nor money. I'd actually have to take his face in my hands when I was trying to talk to him and say, look at Mommy. Please look at Mommy. And his eyes would still be anywhere but on my face. He didn't appear to hear anything that you said.

And, certainly, when he entered nursery, the first thing that his teacher said to me was, he's either extremely disobedient, or he's totally deaf, because he doesn't seem to hear a word that we say to him.

ACIS PETERS:

Make sure that nothing like ants or wasps or bees get into our house. If it does, just take one spray. Now you need eye gear in case it bounces back. Because if it a flat surface, it will spread. And if it spreads over your eyes, it will give you a nasty infection.

Mouth protection to protect your mouth, because if you breathe it in, you get kind of an infection as well as eye.