(upbeat music) Michelle Fradayo. Good morning. Michelle, you have three registrations that go back 12 years. As old as my son. Yes it is, I am 12 years old. This your son? This is my son.
Yes. What's your name, son? My name is Arion. A-R-I-O-N. Arion. And I'm in the seventh grade. And, I am very tall for my age, as some people say. You are very what? I'm very tall, I'm very tall for my age. Oh, you're very tall for your age. Yeah. Okay, well, you're handsome too. You've got a handsome son. I try, I try. Thank you. What school do you go to? I go to a school near like-- The Providence Center School. Yeah, the Providence Center School. He's on the autism spectrum and has ADHD. Well, he appears to be very intelligent. A lot of hard work goes into that. Very articulate. And you make a nice impression. And I love to draw. Drawing is my favorite thing ever. That's good. What do you wanna do when you get out of school? Anything special? I want to go to a good college, and like, probably do something successful, but I don't know yet. I have a lot of options. It's kind of hard to decide when you're at this age still. Especially when you're like, 20. It's like, you don't know what to do, because like, at some points you wanna do what you wanna to, but then again, you don't wanna disappoint your family in any type of way. You are speaking with the maturity of an adult. He's very mature. You have a very excellent way of expressing yourself. You do a great job. You may wanna think of doing something in that area, I'm not sure, you give me the impression of someone who wants to help other people. He's got a really good heart. Thank you, sir. Now, you make a great presentation, now we gotta talk about your mother. Your mother has four red light violations. Four? Red light? Yep. Well, you're lucky, 'cause we happen to have a video-- Awesome.
Of you on Main and Cypress. Oh, wow, even better. Oh, thanks. I still love you, Mom. Appreciate it. Okay, the light is red already, the light is red, the light is red. Actually, she stopped. All right, Lisa, let's look at 440. The light is red, the light is red, the light is red. She almost stopped. What do you think? Did she stop sufficiently for me to give her a break on that? Yeah, I mean, I've seen my mom do that all the time, and even I don't think there's a big of a problem with it. Awesome. Not all, not all the time, but sometimes, I mean. Now we have another red light. Lisa, let's look at 626. Is that her car? Okay. (gasps) How dare you! I just heard you say, "I dare you." I said, "how dare you." Oh, I'm sorry. I said, "how dare you," 'cause just like, how could you do that? No. You are being chastised.
Huh? You are being chastised. He's harsh, yeah. And rightfully so. You've got a great kid. Let me tell you something, we all-- You think you, you think you know your own mom, but then she goes out and blatant does-- Dramatics. Now let me ask you a question. 'Cause I really don't want, I don't wanna say anything that is inappropriate. Do you have any, do you have any, problem about talking about autism? I do not. All right, 'cause I am so impressed with this young man. You know, you started out by saying, you know that, that he has autism. Mm-hmm. Tell us about this. Um-- Maybe you want to tell it. Ever since-- Yeah. Ever since he was a little boy, we realized that he may have been on the spectrum. We always thought Asperger Syndrome. But he's very high-functioning, and we put in a lot of work with him, and there's a lot of processing that goes on and getting the diagnosis was hard, but what happened was that about almost three years ago, Dad left suddenly, and (whimpering) sorry. There was a-- She doesn't like talking about it, you don't have to, you don't have to say-- It's okay, there was an increase in behavioral problems with him in schools. So we ended up having to get some services through Butler and through the whole process ended up getting placement for him at the Providence Center School finally, because in the public schools they just weren't equipped to handle the outbursts that he has and the needs that he had, and-- I'm much better now. I was getting called to the school, two, three times a week having to intervene, to be able to calm him down, or whatever the case was, pick him up, or-- I've had autism for most of my life, like some people have kind of teased me for it and like, some people have said like, been mean to me. And I think, just 'cause you have like a, I know someone else who has autism and ADHD and he goes to my school, and I think just 'cause you're different that doesn't mean you should be treated differently, because we're all human beings. And personally, I don't see myself that different from other people just 'cause I have autism. I'm basically a normal kid, and I love to do normal kid stuff, so yeah. I guess you could say I'm proud to have my autism in some type of way, because it makes me who I am now. I am so impressed by you. You present very well, I mean, and I think your explanation just resonated with me, and I just hope that you can be an inspiration to a whole bunch of other people, which I'm sure you are and will continue to be. So, I want to congratulate you for that. Can you come up here? I want to shake your hand. (people applauding) You should be real proud of this guy. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. What is your verdict in this case? Case dismissed. (gavel slamming) (people applauding) Okay, you won your case. Awesome, thank you, baby. Your boy represented you well. Good luck to you. While I can only imagine the challenges that Michelle has faced raising an autistic child as a single mother, I can say with certainty that the results are outstanding. Arion says he is proud that he has autism because it made him who he is. And who he is to me, is without a doubt, one of the most impressive young men that I have ever met. We all need to listen to Arion's advice. Just 'cause you're different, that doesn't mean you should be treated differently, because we're all human beings. Beautifully said Arion. And congratulations Michelle for raising such an inspirational son. Come on, how cool was that? If you like to see more cases like this one, tune in to Caught in Providence every weekday. Excuse me? You didn't know Caught in Providence is also a TV show? Oh wow! Your life just got substantially better. To find out what channel we're on, go to caughtinprovidence.com, click on your local listings, scroll down 'til you find your hometown, then start doing your happy dance. That's it. Move it, move it, nice. All rise and hit subscribe so you don't miss the latest viral moments like this one. Share these videos and weigh in on the cases. You be the judge, subscribe now.
