A boy with autism said he wished to make friends. On his birthday he got more than 55,000 messages from people around the world.
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Daniel Harrison, who has autism, recently wrote down two wishes – and one of them came true.
"Daniel, for the first time, was asked at his special needs school to write two things that he'd like to achieve," Daniel's dad, Kevin Harrison, told CBS News. "His first was learning to drive and the second thing – which surprised us – was 'make some friends,' because we didn't understand that he understood the theory of friendship."
Harrison, who is from Nottingham, England, said children on the autism spectrum often want to play alone, and Daniel has never expressed wanting friends. "So, that shocked us to the core, really," he said.
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