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Today I had one of those rare moments at work. I was in the morning preschool class working with several different kids and it came time to help with one of our autism kids that I haven't had the opportunity to do much one on one with. Something about today... it didn't matter that this kid was flailing his arms and hitting me and going completely limp while we were coloring Ms. Muffet and the spider that scared her. As he was going limp he laid in my arms and looked up and smiled with the most peaceful look on his face. This kid is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. He fought me long and hard because he wanted nothing to do with preschool today, but something made me not get frustrated today, something was incredibly calming about him. I was determined that we were going to finish and he was going to do it. I didn't care that I was having to use all of my strength to get him to stop putting the crayon between his legs under the table and having to hold his hand in mine and make him grasp the crayon to color one little spider. I didn't care that he colored all over my pants. When we finished and I told him what a good job he did, he closed his eyes and smiled as he swayed his head from side to side. He made me love my job today.