Sentences with phrase «many autistic people»

Autistic people are known for thriving in repetitive tasks, which is an especially valuable skill set in today's data - driven work environments.

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

Autistic people give one an....

I hope that doesn't sound uncaring but as an Autistic person I often don't quite «get it», but that story is amazing.

Most people who write and talk about autism are reluctant simply to describe the odd behavior and mysterious qualities of autistic people.

I know of many autistic people who are not only selectively aware of their surroundings, but who show evidence of prescience that is unnerving.

It may be that Sean is part of the one - third of autistic people who overcome the most disabling symptoms of their disorder» an improvement that can not be attributed to any particular treatment.

People meeting an autistic person almost invariably feel that within the strange creature they see there is a hidden person who is intelligent, who can recognize in another what he conceals in himself.

As is frequently the case with autistic people, Sean has an unusually complete and accurate memory of his past, and he has analyzed his childhood memories in an attempt to explain behavior that was incomprehensible to other people.

Autistic people spend a good part of their energy keeping the world at bay, holding off intimacy in any form.

One - third of autistic people also have symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), meaning they can quickly...

Park is one of many autistic people translating their particular views of the world into art pieces.

Thanks to her writings, and those of Oliver Sacks, she is perhaps the best - known autistic person in America.

Grandin sets out to portray the mental and emotional character of animals and its resemblance to that of autistic people — all of it set against the familiar backdrop of normal human intelligence and behavior.

At breakfast Grandin explained to me how easy it is for autistic people to find a figure hidden in a complex picture — a test called the Embedded Figure Task.

Previous research has already suggested a link between autistic people and an increased risk of suicide.

«We know mental health problems and suicide are a huge problem in autism but there is little high quality research to help us understand how we can improve services and the lives of autistic people.

Normal people have trouble seeing it, but it jumps right out at an autistic person.

It's an acute observation, all the more important because it comes from an autistic person.

But she is a deeply discerning student of human behavior because, as an autistic person, she has had to study how normal humans behave in order to fit in.

She knows this partly because you can't get anything past an autistic person either.

Moreover, according to Claudio Toma, «more inherited truncated mutations mean lower intelligence quotient in an autistic person.»

The more we understand the causes, the better we can support all autistic people to live long, healthy, happy lives.»

She knows that fear is a landmark emotion for a cow, just as it is for an autistic person.

«Pressure is calming to the nervous system of a cow or an autistic person,» Grandin says.

However, this is the first study to suggest those who have not been diagnosed with autism but had certain traits typical of autistic people were also more at risk of attempting suicide.

Perceptions of sight, sound, and touch are amplified for autistic people and animals.

In Animals in Translation, co-authored with science writer Catherine Johnson, Grandin makes an intriguing argument that, psychologically, animals and autistic people have a great deal in common — and that both have mental abilities typically underestimated by normal people.

Autistic people have a difficult time figuring out what other people are feeling.

Dogs» and other mammals» responses to and offerings of displays of affection, which are so unlike an autistic person's relationship to other people, completely undermine the model proposed in the article for interspecies understanding.

Ordinary people seem to love using idioms, metaphors and figurative speech, whether to aid communication or simply to make life more interesting, whereas for autistic people they simply make no sense.

Mirella Dapretto, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, may have nailed down the source of some of autism's key symptoms, the social and emotional deficits that make it so difficult for autistic people to interact with others.

Autistic people think in black and white and therefore interpret everything literally.

Many autistic people are starting to agree.

One theory of autistic savantism suggests that during fetal development or early in life, some developmental abnormality affects the brain's left side, resulting in the difficulties that many autistic people have with words and social interaction, functions typically processed by the left hemisphere.

And might autistic people suffer from a rare tangling of the senses?

The prototype proved popular with autistic people who were invited to test it.

To do that, the team engineered the yeast form of NHE9 to have the variants seen in autistic people.

Gastrointestinal problems in autism are more common than in the general population but are not present in every autistic person.

It's also not clear that all autistic people would welcome a drug which aimed to improve their social ability, especially if it had other side - effects.

Autistic people and carers of children with autism should not consider using the drug other than for its approved use as a cancer treatment.»

If people put even half of the time, money, and activism into helping autistic people that they do into chasing conspiracy theories, it could change and save lives.

To argue otherwise it to willingly expose autistic people to greater peril than we already face.

Every time autistic people are forced to make arguments like the one I'm making right now, it depletes energy (or «spoons») that we could otherwise apply to advocating for ourselves in more constructive ways — or simply getting through another day.

That's because if autistic people and their families were provided with better support and true acceptance, we would flourish.

Imagine what could be possible for autistic people and their families if, instead of offering a $ 100,000 prize to anyone who can prove that vaccines are safe, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Robert De Niro invested that money in services that could improve the quality of the lives that they think are so tragically altered by autism?

The movement also harms us by wasting resources that might otherwise go to actually helping autistic people instead of clinging to a conspiracy that makes people fear us.

The only thing that all autistic people have in common is that we're all human beings who deserve to be treated like human beings.

Autism itself is not a disorder, although autistic people are generally more prone to physical and emotional disorders.

Not all of the awareness that comes with this month's campaigns genuinely helps autistic people, though.