CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A few years ago Sam Quarles had a lot to be nervous about.

"I was kind of the odd kid out. I didn't get invited to parties," Quarles said.

He's on the autism spectrum. Quarles often felt lost in the sea of 3,000 plus students at Myers Park High School in Charlotte.

Two years ago he decided he had enough. On Myers Park club recruitment day, Quarles set up a table with a sign, advertising his new organization, the Aspie Club. ​The name stood for Asperger's.

The idea was to recruit other high schoolers struggling to find friends and have them work with kids struggling to read.

"The student got something out of it trying to deal with something with a different personality and the volunteer got something too," said Leah Palmer-Licht who's a parent volunteer and has worked with Quarles.

Not all of the students are on the spectrum, but Quarles still didn't expect many people to join.

He was wrong because on that day Quarles got 40 to 50 students to sign up.

"It kind of shook me... just beacuse I see the world a little bit differently than everyone else does doesn't mean they don't accept me," Quarles said.

Today, Quarles and a few students from the club are tutors at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School in Charlotte.

They help the school's book club.

Daria Brien is one of the students quarles has worked with closely. She admits her reading grade was low when she first met him.

"I didn't like reading a lot," Brien said.

Today it's a different story. With help from Quarles, her grade has improved

"He always gives me the meaning and everything so i can know exactly what that word means," Brien said.

Quarles started the Aspie Club to make sure no other student goes through what he did in elementary school.

"No one deserves to not have any friends," Quarles said.

Including quarles whose gone from that so called odd kid out to an Everyday Hero who brings other kids in.

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