I Know A Number Of Autistic Adults

I'm Seeing Too Many Smart Kind Of Socially Awkward Kids, A Lot Milder Than I Was, Not Getting Employment Because They're Not Learning Job Skills.

My Mind Works Like Google For Images. You Put In A Key Word; It Brings Up Pictures. See Language For Me Narrates The Pictures In My Mind.

I Feel Very Strongly That We Need To Give Beef Cattle A Really Good Life. When They Go To Slaughter, It Needs To Be Painless.

Autism Is A Big Continuum, Going From Someone Who Remains Nonverbal, All The Way Up To Geniuses On Silicon Valley. And Some Kids Are Visual Thinkers Like Me. Other Kids Are Pattern Thinkers - Your Mathematicians, Your Programmers. And There Are Others, They Are Word Thinkers. Uneven Skills. You Need To Take The Thing That They're Good At And You Need To Work On Developing It.

I'm A Visual Thinker, Really Bad At Algebra. There's Others That Are A Pattern Thinker. These Are The Music And Math Minds. They Think In Patterns Instead Of Pictures. Then There's Another Type That's Not A Visual Thinker At All, And They're The Ones That Memorize All Of The Sports Statistics, All Of The Weather Statistics.