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The misunderstood genius in autistic people

James Karanja, the chairman of Autism Support Centre Kenya and Edwin Mburu. [Carlisto Ochieng']

Imagine sitting in a mid-sized bus yearning for the moment you will reach your destination then out of nowhere a passenger blurts “What if this bus rolls  right now?” followed by sudden awkward silence.

This was the case when Edwin Ruhiu Mburu boarded a bus home from school and shared this with his former teacher much to the surprise of the other passengers. What the passengers did not know at the time was those words were simply a representation of the curious and imaginative mind of a young autistic boy.

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