On the outside, Logan Thomas looks like your everyday seventh grader, but he has a problem talking to his fellow peers to make friendships.

One way he tries to overcome this is by making videos on YouTube.

“He’s got a ton of videos posted on YouTube. He was telling me he has more than 120 million views of his videos and 160 subscribers,” said father Terry Thomas.

But when the videos he posted weren’t enough, he turned to a radically different way to hurtle his social barriers.

“I was pretty impressed with Logan, because he is an autistic kid running for president. You don’t see that very often,” said brother Chris Thomas.

“I told him, ‘If you don’t win, it’s okay, as long as you do something that you want to do’; which I’ve told both boys, as long as they are happy doing what they are doing, I am behind them,” said Terry Thomas.

Logan’s life has been tough on him, and the rest of his family, starting at a very young age.

“I first found out he was autistic when he was about three. I took him to Children’s Hospital, and had him tested right after their mother got killed in Little Rock,” said Terry Thomas.

Logan’s autism was a great challenge in his childhood, and he couldn’t always persuade people the way he did in his campaign.

“For the longest, all he would do is repeat the sentences from Disney movies, and that’s how he talked,” said Terry Thomas.

Everybody was surprised when he first started talking.

“When I was at the age of six, my dad told me I actually talked,” Logan Thomas said.

When Logan spoke out his campaign speech, he surprised his whole school, who didn’t know he had it in him. His brother Chris said Logan doesn’t really like to talk people.

“I thought it was pretty mind-blowing,” Chris Thomas said. “Logan actually did a very incredible speech. and he pushed through that.”

The student council sponsor also was surprised by hi speech to the students at school. The speeches were video-taped ahead of time.

“He was very honest in his speech,” Sara Cohorn said. “I thought it was interesting that it spoke to the students.”

When it came time to vote, the students blew Logan’s competition out of the water, which made him one of the happiest guys in town.

“People tell me, ‘I voted for you.’ That’s so exciting,” said Logan Thomas.

The election has changed Logan Thomas’ attitude and demeanor at school and in classes.

“He’s been wearing a tie, almost every day; coming to school very proud of himself for being elected office,” said Cohorn.

Because he is only in 7th grade, he couldn’t be president and had to accept the vice-presidential office, but that doesn’t matter according to his dad.

“He’s super excited about being vice-president. He told me today that next year he is going to run for president,” said Terry Thomas.

In the end, Logan gained numerous friends and overcame the odds that life gave him.

“Eighth graders and seventh graders are his friends. Everybody there is his friends,” said Chris Thomas.

Logan thinks it has changed his life from now on.

“It’s impacted my social life, because it did change for the better and the school changed for the better,” said Logan Thomas.

His dad is extremely proud of Logan’s accomplishment and was excited for him.

“He was excited,” said Terry Thomas. “And I told him that one day he might be president. That really excites him.”

So learn a lesson from Logan Thomas, no matter how far fetched an idea may be, it could just be the thing that solves your problem.