For three months, Alex Plascencia sat in the reception area of a local martial arts studio, watching other children with physical and mental disabilities practice karate. One day, he moved his chair into the dojo.
For another five days, the 17-year-old Walnut High School student watched, his mother Ofelia Plascencia said. Then he participated.
"I don't know why, but one day he got up and performed. I started to cry for my son, to do that is awesome," Plascencia said. Alex, 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, is autistic, epileptic and suffers from cerebral palsy.
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