‘Just couldn’t stop’: Teen artist with autism shines in national competition

Terrell Hampton loves to draw. The 13-year-old has been using art to express himself for nearly as long as he can remember.

“In the school books, I used to draw in them to recreate the little animations I saw,” he told Channel 9’s Elsa Gillis. “When I started, I just couldn’t stop.”

Now, he’s taken his talent from his desk to a larger stage as a quarter finalist in America’s Most Artistic Kid contest. Hampton has already won several rounds of the nationwide competition…

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