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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
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loyalist like al seven eighty years old asylum i gotten alarm clock and i was
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expecting a lot of houston and get up on time
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and when we return we will talk about two point grandad’s other passion in
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life
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animal behavior