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Internship at the White House ‘Means a Lot’: 1st Known Autistic Intern
December 25, 2020
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Xavier DeGroat, believed to be the first autistic intern at the White House, said that his experience in the White House means a lot. “It means a lot that I interned at the White House and became the first autistic White House intern,” DeGroat, a 30-year-old autism advocate and student at Northwood University, told Fox…
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