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Ingrid @ April 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
20 year old Clay Marzo has Autism and a career in Professional Surfing. Watch the video for a nice bio.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/autistic-surfer-clay-marzo-masters-waves-struggles-land/story?id=10477337
© copyright 2010 www.renegade-scholar.com Clay Marzo: Autistic Surfer
Ingrid @ August 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Dr. Temple Grandin is possibly the most famous autistic person to date. The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow is a Horizon (BBC) episode about her life, which mainly deals with how she’s been able to cope with the difficulties inherent in Autism as well as use her unique abilities to craft an exciting [...]
Ingrid @ August 11, 2009 # 2 Comments
Estée Klar from The Joy of Autism has posted a video (which aired in 2008 on CBC) called Positively Autistic on her site. It shows what it’s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren’t exposed to. Some wonderful quotes from clip 1:
The lack of positive [...]
Ingrid @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Three years ago, before Tremendo was diagnosed with Autism, various people would tell me not to worry. “He’ll talk when he’s ready, You know Einstein didn’t talk until he was three.” I didn’t find much peace in that knowledge because I was too worried about how hard my life was at the time. [...]
Ingrid @ May 7, 2008 # One Comment
I saw this You Tube video sometime near the end of last year and it really affected my perspective about what autism really is and points out some of the arrogant beliefs that our society seems to express toward all people it feels “superior” to. This video helped me see the hidden biases I [...]
