Speaker with autism gives tips on life, relationships, jobs

It isn't often that you hear a young man boasting how it took only two tries to get the prettiest girl in his high school to go to senior prom with him. Or that asking twice was nothing compared to asking other girls out at least 10 times before they finally relented. And once a girl agrees to go out? It's best not to wear sweat pants, lean on the horn in her driveway or make sudden romantic advances. Also, before a date, it's good to trim your nose hair, clean your feet with hand sanitizer and consider sprinkling talcum powder in all the right places. David Hamrick's audience probably wasn't expecting to howl with laughter at his speech on living with autism Thursday night at Logan Center in South Bend. But his somewhat unfiltered honesty and the obvious joy it gave him to share the details of his life made it impossible for the 125 or so children, teens and adults in the room not to return the smile he gave throughout his talk.

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