View Full Version : Jason McElwain, his autism and Basketball
pantherLax
02-24-2006, 02:13 PM
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5355916
I saw it on SportsCenter too. Its very inspirational.
Just read it.
And its right by the Rochester area, so maybe some of you are familiar with him?
Longpole5435
02-24-2006, 02:23 PM
wow
'nuff said
my cousin has autism, and i could never see him doing anyhting like that.
so basically, i'm real impressed
fitzy_nb_11
02-24-2006, 02:36 PM
that's amazing glad to see that type of stuff in sports.
skip0l
02-24-2006, 02:44 PM
i saw him on sportscenter today. while it's an amazing story, i think his autism is somewhat mild. one of my good friends has an autistic brother and he acts nothing like this kid on TV. he lit it up in his 4 minutes though.
NickMB17
02-24-2006, 02:54 PM
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5355916
I saw it on SportsCenter too. Its very inspirational.
Just read it.
And its right by the Rochester area, so maybe some of you are familiar with him?
Yea this happened at my school (Greece Athena High School) abot 1 and a half weeks ago. His autism isn't that bad though, it is kind of hard to tell he has it. Everyone calls him J-MAC. it's too bad that I didn't go to the game. So far I've seen him on CNN, Cold Pizza, all the local news channels, and he was on Good Morning America at 8:30 this morning.
Z12/AM
02-24-2006, 06:01 PM
my cousin is mildly autistic, very awesome article.
Jmalins23
02-24-2006, 06:21 PM
that would be amazing even for the star player to get 6/7 3's in 4 minutes let alone someone with autism... thats awesome
i saw him on sportscenter today. while it's an amazing story, i think his autism is somewhat mild. one of my good friends has an autistic brother and he acts nothing like this kid on TV. he lit it up in his 4 minutes though.
It said he was what doctors called "fuctionally autistic." I could be wrong, but "aspergers syndrome" might be a relavent term.
Edit: Also, how blown would you be if you were on the loosing team. Not only getting beat by an autistic kid, but having your loss all over the national news.
faceitoff
02-24-2006, 08:05 PM
If you read about his whole background, you'd agree with me that there WILL be a movie on it.
ohlax51
02-24-2006, 08:21 PM
awhile back an autistic guy got valadectorian at his school so id have to agree that there are different levels. Great story
faceitoff
02-24-2006, 08:23 PM
awhile back an autistic guy got valadectorian at his school so id have to agree that there are different levels. Great story
I'm really sorry, but that's kind of sad.
ohlax51
02-24-2006, 08:25 PM
well i think some how the only things that where impaired were his motor skills and sense of judgment.
I'm really sorry, but that's kind of sad.
How so.....?
Jmalins23
02-24-2006, 08:36 PM
I'm really sorry, but that's kind of sad.
people with autism can be really wicked smart at some things, just other things dont come as easy
pantherLax
02-24-2006, 09:40 PM
If you watched the SportsCenter segment, they did an interview with him. Because i started watching it during the interview i was confused why it was such a big national news event. But it was obvious there was something strange cause he was looking away, his sentences were wierd and his answers were short and (weak?). As if he was too cool to do the interview, like he didnt want to be on ESPN
jaw22
02-24-2006, 11:03 PM
There's a kid with down's syndrome in our school, he is so dominant at badminton its ridiculous. He's really good at shooting foul shots too
bkball00
02-25-2006, 01:22 AM
i play basketball for my school team and can barely shoot 6 for ten from the three point line
anjang86
02-25-2006, 09:09 AM
My brother has extremely mild autism, it was so mild that I think the doctors are trying to take away the diagnosis right now because it doesn't quite fit anymore.
He had it when he was young and while he couldn't talk in sentences when he was little, he was able to read and do math at an early age.
Faceitoff, I don't think you have the wrong impression about autism. It's a 'disease' where your skills aren't as balanced as the rest of people in society.
Lets say you have three skills, social, motor, and analytical. If the average of these three skills = 5 for every person, normal people would have each skill at a level of 5. Whereas an autistic person would maybe have a social skill level of 3, motor skill level of 3 and an anaylitical skill level of 9. You can get valedictorian w/ low social and motor skills.
faceitoff
02-25-2006, 10:44 AM
My brother has extremely mild autism, it was so mild that I think the doctors are trying to take away the diagnosis right now because it doesn't quite fit anymore.
He had it when he was young and while he couldn't talk in sentences when he was little, he was able to read and do math at an early age.
Faceitoff, I don't think you have the wrong impression about autism. It's a 'disease' where your skills aren't as balanced as the rest of people in society.
Lets say you have three skills, social, motor, and analytical. If the average of these three skills = 5 for every person, normal people would have each skill at a level of 5. Whereas an autistic person would maybe have a social skill level of 3, motor skill level of 3 and an anaylitical skill level of 9. You can get valedictorian w/ low social and motor skills.
You mean I have the wrong impression, and I realize that now. Thanks?
anjang86
02-25-2006, 11:49 AM
You mean I have the wrong impression, and I realize that now. Thanks?
I don't understand this post.
NickMB17
02-25-2006, 02:40 PM
ti said in the newspaper yesterday that Disney called his house hoping for a movie deal. And here is the GMA interview. (http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1657457) It is kinda cool to see a kid from my school and a gym teacher on Good Morning America and ESPN.
anjang86
02-25-2006, 02:56 PM
Thanks for the video link. Jason was more autistic than I had orginially thought, makes this story that much better.
tiplax
02-27-2006, 04:29 PM
With a preformance like his it's hard to imagin he didn't make the team. If he played like that during tryouts he should have made the team easy. There must be some really good players on the team for him not making the team. Unless he played really bad in tryouts and practiced with the team the whole season. over all, very touching story
ReLAXation7
02-27-2006, 07:29 PM
He's better at basketball than I am. Way to go J-Mac. Very inspirational.
freestylewalkin
02-27-2006, 08:50 PM
My Dad just showed this video to me today ironically the team the beat was my Moms old high school.
A fellow D man in my grade has autism and he is one of the best players. Of course it helpps his Dad play college lax and his brother is a superstar but he is still an awesome kid.
favorite quote from the Clip :read: "yea i was hot as a pistol"