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Asperger’s in Adults: You think you know the faces of Asperger’s Autism

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dr granted let’s start at the very beginning from your perspective what is

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alters on term limits and are a lot to pull disorder

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child’s one was that i can vary from my very severe with the charred remains

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nonverbal with many other problems maybe have blood seen seizures

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to jesus out the silicon valley

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you know you get a little bit of the autistic trait you might get a multi

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rowing sign

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you get more of a trait

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you get for severe problems while the main problems in autism is done

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you know lack of violence social understanding that has to be repetitive

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fixated interests

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often these kids often get intense special interests

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when you use a special interest motivate schoolwork kid like airplanes

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mistress reading with airplanes math airplanes

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so they’re actual differences and end all to stick brain

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yes sir can statbrain ariel you have a normal early over parole for in the

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brain especially in the back part of the brain

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the file for tax breaks at the function of how to get what they love

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this in case is mainly as an extra mathematics circuits back here and

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that might explain some of the savant skills i want to emphasize not everybody

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in the spectrums of support

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artisans are very very broad spectrum

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some of these all thinkers like made taken photo was two pictures come by

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google for images

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others are pattern sankar kind i think chests or a commie

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organic chemistry formulas sort of more abstract patterns good at math may have

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trouble with reading

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and then some of this case manager all time without her i was one of those kids

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has a plan to kids that cannot do algebra they can do geometry and

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training they need to go to geometry and craig

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and then is not the kind of mind forward thinker

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and they’re not a visual thinker

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to one of the things that the artistic mind it tends to be good at one thing

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that something else and we’ve got to work on blowing up strikes

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let’s talk a little bit about your own situation

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when did you learn from which you realized that you are seeing things

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differently

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than some of us well and also look in high school i thought i was a fun

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pictures i’d realized by thinking was different

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and i didn’t fully understand the extent how what they king was different and to

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our wrote my book thinking in pictures that would have been in the midnight

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east and updated ten two thousand sex

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and i asked people think about church steeple and are shocked to find out some

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you know that this is a big stick thing that figure image i_d_c_ specific ones i

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can tell you exactly where they’re at there is no generalized one

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but a lot of people dot generalized pictures of things in their mind

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and that was a real shock to me discomfort that

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but i didn’t discover it blessed are talking to people about how they think

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have those traits have they help you in your professional life

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well ping a visual think i really helps me as a designer i don’t want to

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emphasize is a lot of people who do not have watches and they’re also visual

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thinkers

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by visual thinking is more on the extreme and

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because i draw drawing it actually test run the peace with the man in my mind

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most other visual thinkers designers

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you know they can make the still picture dot test run

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and that’s coming right absent for decidedly visual thing

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and it sounds like you believe that we could be integrating autistic children

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much more into the classroom and everyday life are weak

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we lose a generation if we don’t do this

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we’ve got to start thinking about

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when the kids in middle school what’s he going to do in close up

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illegal ahron

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you know work skills being on time

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doing unassigned task

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on various concern the schools of taking out so many of the hands-on classes

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if i had not art classes sewing class last night woman preschool i would have

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just been dead those are the classes that

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made school meaningful and my science teacher in high school and all kinds of

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great hands-on projects

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and that got me turn on

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now i had a reason to study

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becoming a scientist

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it seems as if we’re seeing more cases of all it isn’t is it just that were

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more aware of it

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or we seeing an increase in the disorder you get the very mild type of what is on

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the illustration all the big bang theory type geeky types

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dole’s have always been around

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they have always been here i can’t take it kids i went to school was that they

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labeled ask burgers are mild ought to some today where i think there may be

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some increases some very severe autism

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actually where the kids seems to develop some language and that all of a sudden

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they want

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and understandably many families that have

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at sure child with severe alters they’re looking for answers

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and they’ve looked at various things are immunizations for vaccines

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what your feelings there

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well parents always look law some parents always looking for like a magic

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bullet or something like that

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and i want to emphasize account emphasize enough the importance of early

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education intervention least two-year-olds

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working hours and hours of one the ones if you somewhere where you can’t get the

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service fee of two and three year old get tony church getting grannies get

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some students

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get in there and work with that he had

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there’s nothing so worst thing you can do

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okay a vaccine things showing one station showing the smell a fact

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but i think is still one study they need to do it has to look at these repressive

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group smart kids have some language

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and then they lose it

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we need a study that some groups separately to totally close the book on

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the issue

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uh… in in treating the disorder would we go from here

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well the main treatments for autism arl right kind of education we’ve got to

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start out with little kids getting at least twenty twenty five hours a week

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of interaction with an effective teacher and that effective teacher to be some

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news graham

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but you can to slow sip mclaren off educating and rocking you know i used to

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do all us artistic paper because sally hurt my ears solid rock to block out the

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world will dot blot out the world i cannot develop

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some kids ashley cannot stand for some whites

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because it’s like being at just attack the sensory problems really are real now

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yellow thing you see that teach autistic kids all the social rules autistic kids

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have to learn

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bike being talk

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you don’t learn how to take turns they don’t instinctively kind unknown the

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social roles they got a big talk table manners everything at igcar

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like being applied

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and this is where my fifties upbringing helped me also you got to get a

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mattweeks both in the new thanks a lot sizes because i want to do things

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and i didn’t want to go to my aunt’s ranch when i was fifteen

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mother says you need to mcconnell

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ended up walking at and i end up staying there all summer died about doing things

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i was talking to be on time

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when i was a little kid