“Autism with me, kind of like, works really well with yo-yos right here,” Smith said ... named Time magazine’s “World’s Best Yo-Yo-er” in 2014 at age 18, was from Chico.

For most people, yo-yos are a toy that they played with sporadically as children until they got too frustrated, or the string got too tangled to continue. For others, it’s a hobby, a community ...