Refusing to Let Autism Define Him

Tristan Braverman, center,
with his parents.

MERRICK, N.Y. -- Tristan Braverman, a junior and a varsity basketball player at Lawrence Woodmere Academy, used to blend in with the rest of the student body, but after being featured in the May/June issue of ESPNHS magazine, his teammates and fellow classmates learned something about him they didn’t know.