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Colchester, Connecticut - Eric Hollingsworth was just 2 years old when doctors told his parents his severe autism would prevent him from talking or ever going to school in a regular classroom.
"They painted a really grim picture," Eric's mother, Karen Hollingsworth said. "They told us to expect the Rain Man without any savant skills."
Fast forward 17 years, and Eric Hollingsworth, now 19, was finishing the last day of a food service class at Bacon Academy this week, sitting at a table with other students making baskets of scallion flowers and radish roses for a party for a retiring school board member.
