I Think That Autistic Brains Tend To

People On The Autistic Spectrum Tend To Get Fixated On What They Think.

I Can Explain How A Person With Autism Thinks. I Am Very, Very Interested In How People Think. It's Been A Gradual Process Of Learning More And More About How My Thinking Process Is Different. You Know It's Bottom Up - You Take Specific Examples To Make Concepts And Then I Put Them In Categories.

I Am Much Less Autistic Now, Compared To When I Was Young. I Remember Some Behaviors Like Picking Carpet Fuzz And Watching Spinning Plates For Hours. I Didn't Want To Be Touched. I Couldn't Shut Out Background Noise. I Didn't Talk Until I Was About 4 Years Old. I Screamed. I Hummed. But As I Grew Up, I Improved.

The Thing Is, Autism Is A Big Spectrum. Going From Folks Who Remain Nonverbal, All The Way Up To, Ya Know, Famous Scientists And Musicians. And We've Got To Work On Strengths. We Also Have To Work On Teaching Basic Manners And Skills.

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