A small number of individuals with autism will experience extreme aptitude with savant skills (calculating, memorizing, musical talent and others) While the range of total effects will vary,
most autistic people will have the following symptoms in common:
Not exact matches
Large portions of the articulate class consider
most of the
people involved in these pursuits to be
autistic.
I think of how every Latino kid taunted by classmates, every soldier sent to war, every
autistic kid who will lose his therapy when ACA is repealed, every black man shot by police is somebody else's baby boy, somebody else's
most important
person in the world.
It does not bode well for the country that millions of Americans»
most regular interaction with a
person on the
autistic spectrum is Big Bang Theory's Sheldon, for example.
Most people who write and talk about autism are reluctant simply to describe the odd behavior and mysterious qualities of
autistic people.
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.
This sentiment is echoed by Jim Sinclair, an
autistic person, in what was for me, the
most arresting passage in the book:
One of them is that in 1988,
most people in the world who had never seen an
autistic adult saw one for the first time.
And intriguingly the parents of
autistic kids were largely dependent on reading the emotions on others faces via their mouths and not their eyes, as is the case with
most people who are not afflicted with the condition.