“Will, let’s go, we have to go to the shelter,” cried out his mom. Will was in deep concentration looking at his model F-16 Fighting Falcon plane. He’s addicted to planes. He has made nearly 35 models and has almost 50 books on different types of planes. Will ignored his mom. He didn’t want to go pick up his therapy dog, Rizzo. Will has Aspergers, which therefore makes him easily frightened by loud sounds, has immense trouble making friends because of his social awkwardness, and is overly routine oriented. He can also become easily fixated on topics of interest, like planes.
Will can hear his mother’s feet stomping up the stairs. She opens the door and says in a particularly soft voice, almost a whisper, “William we need to go the shelter to pick up Rizzo, he’s expecting us.” She knew that he wouldn’t react well if …show more content…
He almost always gets the highest score on everything, but this time he was actually proud of it, he felt that he had actually met a true friend.
“Will you need to feed the dog,” his mom yelled from downstairs, yet again like she had last night. She didn’t expect him to do what she said, but it was at least a try. Will had yet to pet or even acknowledge the dog as Rizzo sat in the corner on his bed, under the window.
However to her surprise he immediately responded, “Coming.” While he fed the dog he got frightened a couple times because Rizzo was so excited to eat that he would sometimes jump up on Will, but he proceeded to feed the dog and went right back upstairs.
For the rest of the week, Antony and Will played together at recess and sat by each other with some of Anthony’s other friends at lunch. It ended up being a pretty good week for Will, he had not made only one friend, but others that were Anthony’s friends
When WIll walked in the door from school on Thursday, he yelled “Mom, I have a friend that’s gonna come over tomorrow afternoon, is that