About Wil

Check out a video of Wil creating

his amazing paper cutouts!

About Wil Clark Kerner

"The Cutout Kid"

Wil Clark Kerner, born 1995, was diagnosed with Classic

Autism at age two. He lacked play skills and interest in toys. Yet Wil had and still has a determined sparkle about him.

Early on, videos especially held Wil’s interest. Video characters

became his friends. By age five he showed interest in sea life

and spiders he found in books. He was nine before he discovered the feel and colors of Play

Doh, began drawing facial expressions and cutting construction paper. Within months, he

was labeling his feelings with the names of the Seven Dwarfs. On his tenth birthday, Wil

realized that presents had surprises inside, one of which held pairs of scissors. Oddly,

Wil does not position his fingers and thumb in the holes of his scissors but instead wraps

his hand entirely around the scissors mysteriously making them cut.

An only child, homeschooled and becoming brighter by the day, Wil’s learning is paced by

his autism. His favorite lesson is reading words and sentences. While he anticipates the big

holidays, he avoids scary Halloween. He is a compassionate, loveable, huggable happy guy.

He becomes excitingly energized on parent-driven ATV rides around their acreage, and

enjoys swinging and car rides down new roads to see what is there. He enjoys dining

at his favorite restaurants and loves shopping for new packs of colored paper.

Wil likes to speak in colors. Colors are his verbal interjections providing exclamation about

the emotion and meaning of his thinking. He can talk a blue, red, green, orange, purple

streak, especially when defining video characters. Since scissors became Wil’s constant

companion and cutting colored paper his main self-therapy, his reality has blossomed!