Couple with autism featured on Good Morning America
by Beth
Here’s a follow up to Patricia Wright’s Autism, adulthood … and love post — you know, the one about the two young people with autism who fell in love and were featured in a Glamour Magazine article.
Well, that article must have caught somebody’s attention at ABC TV — after the magazine came out, David Hamrick, 29, and Lindsey Nebeker, 27, were invited to appear in a story on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Despite their difficulties, they both kept trying to reach out and connect with others. Nebeker learned to make friends by reading Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Hamrick had tried to untangle the rules of dating by reading self-help books.
Apparently, all that reading was worth it. The Good Morning America feature said that the couple met at an autism conference in 2005, became friends, and eventually did the “impossible.” They fell in love.