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Asperger syndrome: not a disorder, a superpower!

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The famous climate activist Greta Thunberg hits back at her detractors by defining her Asperger condition as a superpower. Indeed having Asperger comes with a wide range of abilities and strengths:

  • a capacity to see the world differently and therefore be creative and think outside of the box
  • a tendency towards solving problems rather than satisfy the social or emotional needs of others
  • a true honesty (meaning speaking their mind and being very direct)
  • great attention to detail and a capacity to perceive errors that are not apparent to others
  • a strong desire to seek knowledge, truth and perfection with a different set of priorities than others
  • a strong sense of social justice
  • a distinct sense of humour

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/02/greta-thunberg-responds-to-aspergers-critics-its-a-superpower

 

The struggle to attend gigs for autistic music fans

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Bright lights can be unpleasantly overstimulating for people with autism.

Loud sounds, bright lights, sweaty crowds – a gig can be an overwhelming experience for someone with autism, who may be oversensitive to sensory stimuli.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/10/its-upsetting-the-autistic-music-fans-being-shut-out-of-gigs

 

Greta Thunberg, or the importance of seeing things in black and white

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Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmental activist, has shown that being different is a gift.

Watch Greta’s impacting Ted talk on climate change:

 

Many people with autism still face cruel treatment and policies too often intend to erase their difference to make them blend in and conform . Read Ian Birrell’s article from The Guardian

Rain Man: a good or bad thing for Autism?

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From Rain Man Movie Quotes. QuotesGram

Thirty years ago, hardly anybody knew about autism. “Rain Man” was one of the first movies to depict autism on screen. On one hand, it contributed greatly to raising people’s awareness of the condition. On the other hand, it also contributed to spreading the false knowledge that all autistic people are somehow savants in one specific area, and behave in a particular way. But as writer Chris Bonnello says, the dilemma is that “no representation of autism is ever going to satisfy everyone, because it’s such a wide spectrum and the people within it are so enormously different to each other, including in how their autism affects them.”

Read article from “The Guardian” here.

Disclosing an autism diagnosis at school

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Holly's autism film starring role helped raise her ...

Should a child with autism disclose his/her condition in school? There is no straight answer to this question. On one side there are clear benefits of coming out in the open to generate understanding and acceptance. But on the other, there is the fear of being labelled and only seen as “the child with autism”. Raising autism awareness within school is key to promote peer acceptance and helping these students talk openly about their condition.

This video shows Holly, a young student on the spectrum, who took the step of telling everyone in her school.