No.

+Jason Grady I absolutely agree with you on that. We also need to be training the parents and other adults to mold the child.

We need her to reinvent our entire government. Then our entire society. Temple Grandin for president! And Susan Boyle as her vice president (not that Susan Boyle is relevant to this, I just think they would make an adorable team. Cummon... you know they would).

She would be a great president I agree.

Why is Susan Boyle not relevant? She has been diagnosed with ASD.

Chaya Shalom Because ASD is the only connection the two have (other than a similar age and gender), and it doesn't really connect to Grandin's presidency in the imaginary universe I proposed lol. Also ASD isn't the reason I admire both women. But regardless... Temple Grandin/Susan Boyle ticket for 2020!

I don’t really see her as standing up for the weak. I find that she is educating the weak who are unable to see the extraordinary powers and thinking of those who are on the autistic spectrum. Looking at autism as a deficit is where the problem lies with “average” or “normal” people.

Sorry but I need to say that if she really wanted to protect animals she would be AGAINST slaughtering them

I mean I get and respect the fact that not everyone is against slaughtering nonhuman animals - but they cannot be called animal defenders

@@fabiocaetanofigueiredo1353 Agreed. It is important work to decrease stress in the animals we consume, but that is not saving them at all. It merely serves to make their lives less scary before they are killed, which is still great but not the same as protecting that animal from being slaughtered.

@@fabiocaetanofigueiredo1353 i love it that your comment exists, i was baffled by the amount of people who call her an animal rights activists for... working with the meat industry? Call her whatever you want but saying that she's an animal activist is straight up insulting towards actual animal rights activists

I had a kid with adhd. I saw his brilliance & need for constant simulation aka movement to release excessive energy he was my fave student.

I'm also ADHD/ASD undiagnosed both my children have asd/adhd/ one is non-verbal and I was born in the 90s, if only I hadn't of had a bad childhood and had supporting parents who would help me but instead neglected and called me names..😢

She really is

I am autistic and have "excellent" social skills. When I was 14 I went to a college to get my teaching degree for nursery school and kindergarten. I just noticed that social situation was the only thing I sucked at, so I wanted to work on myself. I taught myself social skills like an anthropologist who studies another culture. I am a very good teacher. (According to my students) But social skills take so much more energy out of me than my colleagues. I can only work half time and have to carefully manage my social life. Otherwise I crash into depression and panic attacks.

Same. It's an act that was carefully studied to the letter. It takes a lot of energy to maintain. When your energy is directed to multiple areas at once, it can be very, very exhausting and you have to compensate. I learned that dressing bright and cheerfully gave people the impression that I was friendly and welcoming because my expression doesn't always reflect that, and I may be in situations where the last thing on my mind is whether I am smiley enough without looking creepy. I had to learn to soften my words, so I put a lot of excessive work into softening my approach so it's more palatable. Likewise, a person can learn another language, and speak it very well. However, they may miss all of the cultural nuances that a native speaker may not even think of. A good example may be an American who learns Japanese. They can become fluent, but they are still very direct, demanding and loud in a culture that is not that way. The Japanese co-workers may only extend invitations to social interaction out of nicety, but not feel comfortable with them. It's the same between a Neurodiverse mind in a world made for and by Neurotypicals.

Well said sir!

@@Yakarash Same here. I worked in ECE for years. The adults are who wiped me out; I never wanted to give the kids back. Now as a mother, working in a different field, I still find it's easier for me to connect with children in general than with adults.

@@Yakarash 14? That’s a bit young for college Even for savants

+Emma Falk That's what I tell people (I am an educator doing autism research). We just need to learn how to understand how those with ASD think.

your absolutely right people just need to understand how we think

Genetic traits exist because they helped their expressors to survive.

As an Aspergian, I agree. We just need to embrace being on the Autistic spectrum and raise awareness of it to others. No cure required (screw Autism Speaks).

Emma Falk yeah!

Same same same, father of an autistic girl, tears in my eyes, more hope and info than any other.

You know what? Now you can motivate yourself now even if you had a bad begging.

Yes😊

Thankyou for sharing this gives me alot of answers ❤

THE HUMAN MIND IS FULL OF CURIOSITY & ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES 🧠⚡⚡

I have and she's a little rough on the edges at first but once she's comfortable, she's very nice

+AngelWolfPlays How long have you been working on the game? I'm looking for work in music production in games.

+TheK3vin A little bit over 2 years now..

outofthefog.website/toolbox-1/2015/11/17/complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-c-ptsd Simply put, my Aspergers brain does not like to be told what to learn. It learns naturally through experience with the things I enjoy, and zones out when presented with a subject I'm not interested in. Public school is set up so that you need to learn X amount of subject Y by age Z. So these subjects were forced upon me, and when I got bad grades in subjects I couldn't pay attention to, I was punished. My mom would take away all the things I cared about, leaving me to sit in my room bored out of my mind. Oh, and I also didn't get along too well with the other kids my age. They thought I was an odd nerd who loved sci-fi, fantasy, and comic books. The only friends I had were the other nerds. Over time, I began to resent going to school every day. Especially when the homework began to pile up. I began wishing the most horrifying death upon the teacher who came up with the idea of homework, because I thoroughly hated doing it with every fiber of my being. I hated being forced to give up my free time after enduring 7 hours at a desk, trying to memorize things that my brain simply had no interest in learning, and dealing with an endless barrage of teasing and bullying. If that was your job, you could quit, but as a child you have no choice in the matter. I did not feel safe and secure in school. I felt constantly under threat of punishment, due to something I couldn't control. Powerless in a world where everyone was bullying me, and I started hating all of society. I spent my 20's and most of my 30's in a rage, working jobs I hated and making a lot of bad decisions.

How's the gaming coming along AngelWolfPlays? :)

I'm actually on the verge of getting a customer support job at Nintendo. But again I find myself butting heads with rules and laws. In this case, it's the insistence of corporations to drug test people and not give any exceptions to the rules even if someone lives in a state where cannabis is legal. In my two years living here in WA, I've found that vaporized cannabis oil is the most effective way to deal with the more negative aspects of my disorders. It affects me differently, so in my mind, this ridiculous federal law against it needs to go, or at least be modified to make exceptions. But no. At some point in time, a group of people sat down in a room somewhere and unanimously decided to make cannabis a schedule 1 drug, and people like me have been fighting with them ever since. I know my own brain and how it responds to stress both with and without the cannabis. I greatly resent the fact that someone else, who I never met, made this decision for everyone else, years before any research was done into the effects on a normal brain vs an Aspie brain. It's an outdated law and it needs to be fixed NOW! The fact that there are people still fighting legalization infuriates me and I wish they would all just die off in a most gruesome ways.

We have Elon- the spectrum is strong in these ppl.. for real.

same here :)

Morph Verse "Movie producer" I like your analogy. I upvoted.

Parents should support their children's success in life. Sounds like they only care what others think. I'm glad you're finding your own way and defining your own path to success.

Me too

heroin :-)

Oliver Stieber Heroin is a drug. You silly goose.

Oliver Stieber What Evan meant to say is that heroin is a drug and heroine is the word for female hero. You're not a silly goose. It's a simple mistake that anyone could make, all you forgot was the "e."

Oh me too

For me, honestIy I think she did more than that. She helped me understand how different we all see, hear or even feel the world.. It's amazing 👏