Autistic Surfer Masters Sea, Struggles on Land
Pro-surfer Clay Marzo's Asperger's syndrome helps his surfing. Since he was a little boy, when his difficulty in communicating became evident, Marzo zeroed in on water. He wanted to be near the water, to be in it -- a focus so intense that it was actually obsessive, according to his mother, Jill Marzo. Obsession is part of Asperger's. Ref. Source 7