Pressure Is Calming To The Nervous System.

Who Do You Think Made The First Stone Spears? The Asperger Guy. If You Were To Get Rid Of All The Autism Genetics, There Would Be No More Silicon Valley.

You Have Got To Keep Autistic Children Engaged With The World. You Cannot Let Them Tune Out.

I Think The Mild Aspergers Have Always Been There. You See, Asperger's Diagnosis Did Not Become Common In The U.s. Until The Early '90s. And An Aspergers Has More Or Less Normal Speech Development And They've Always Been Here, That Hasn't Changed. I Can Think Back To When I Was In High School, This Is 40 Years Ago, I Could Name Kids In My High School Class And College Class That, Today, Would Be Diagnosed As Aspergers.

I've Been On Antidepressants For Years, And It Worked To Stop My Anxiety And Didn't Limit Creativity. Some Of The Best Work I've Done, In Fact, Is After I Started Taking The Antidepressants.

I'm Seeing Too Many Kids Where They Get Fixated On Their Own Autism. I'd Rather Have Them Get Fixated That They Like Programming Computers Or They Like Art Or They Want To Sing In The Church Choir Or They Want To Train Dogs, You Know, Something That They Can Turn Into A Career.