own life. Um, so uh, if if you haven't read the book, when you read the book, you'll find out. Um, my son Rowan is autistic and um, I remember when he was about four years old. I have a very clear memory of taking him to the parkand there were other mothers there with their kids and you know all the other kids were playing and laughing and interacting. You know, here's Rowan on
You should definitely go check it out. Also, he wrote a book on autism and about his life story, called Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire, where he gives really interesting insights about how to navigate relationships, career, and day-to-day life with autism. All this taken together, this was a super fun conversation about the history and future of programming, computing, technology, and just building cool stuff in the proverbial
Am I here today because I really asked a perfect question and somebody gave me a perfect answer? and autistic disorders. Well, let me take the second first.
it just means that she and I respond to a particular situation differently but if she and I were to fake autistic person well they didn't they didn't say that but that was clearly the implication when they would
it just means that she and I respond to a particular situation differently but if she and I were to genuine autistic person because I'd been tested and verified and
plates and the spikes. Leo is autistic and because of his autism, he has an extreme eating disorder. And for many years, all he would eat was pancakes.
wanted to celebrate his background. The fact that he had overcome remarkable challenges as an autistic man to get to this position of prominence. As part of raising the profile of this star academic appointment, Jason Arde did an extraordinary range of media
Dr. Grandin has shared intimate aspects of her experience growing up as an autistic child during the 1950s, which has garnered national attention through her bestselling books, including "The Autistic Brain," and "Thinking in Pictures." "Thinking in Pictures" was transformed into the eponymous HBO film which portrayed her challenges and successes breaking into the male-dominated field of animal agriculture in the 1970s.
It's groundbreaking. I think it's the first of its kind in so many ways. The most amount of autistic people in front of and behind a camera on a scripted show. And you're showing a woman of color who is on the autism spectrum, which has never been done before.
You're-- Both of my parents sometimes drop sentences, too. But we're autistic . We like fart comedy.
You're-- Both of my parents sometimes drop sentences, too. And everyone who's autistic , it is a little bit different.
different wiring, then it also makes perfect sense that some people's wiring was evolved So as an autistic extrovert, it's really easy to be misunderstood.
like the polar explorers were doing geographically 100 years ago. I'm autistic and I have a support dog.
But now he couldn't do that anymore, so his team created an eye tracking system that enabled him to compose music using his eyes. was born autistic and blind, and he could play really well with one hand-- but the other hand, he could only play with one finger. So his team created a pedalboard that enabled him to make up for the chords he couldn't play with his left finger using his feet.
PDD — זה ראשי תיבות של: עברו לASD: "Autistic Spectrum Disorder" וגילינו את הABA
She's probably the most renowned and respected animal scientist in the world. But she's also autistic . And it makes for a very special personality.
And Asperger did prize these special abilities in math and other technical subjects and said they were at the, quote, "favorable end of an autistic range." He held a highly gendered view of this in declaring that the autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence-- of the male character.
That is an empathetic communication, unless of course you happen to be psychopathic, which none of you look particularly psychopathic, or you happen to be, for instance, on the autistic spectrum. And there, in those circumstances, some of your empathy circuit won't work and you'll find it more difficult to connect with some of those things.
is there is a autistic side that can be satisfied and of course a nice little
side that autistic side we may feel like we are smelling the Roses but we may be
Does that mean for autistic child and there's a 20% chance that his sibling will also have autism?
Look at that autistic behavior.
I think that many autistic people are actually very empathetic.
I think that some autistic people are afraid that if they learn too much about neurotypicals, if they, you know, do, quote unquote, "therapy,"
Because some autistic people will want to learn more about neurotypicals.
He was an autistic savant who was a musician.
Now in "The Autistic Brain" book, I now show evidence that these two kinds of visualizers actually do exist.
Then her little autistic kid had lots of friends coming over to play with the Minecraft blocks.
With this young autistic girl, it was the other way around.
And it's actually made my autistic life better, because I can play with the cube in public.
That's where I had friends. And I had one lady who was autistic tell me when she got a job with a tech company that she was with her people now, so that was an example of a career that might make you have a better life and have better mental health.
And I basically acted as an internal activist to make sure that everybody gets a fair shake. But 80% of college-educated autistic individuals are unemployed. And then the really sad part is that when they do enter corporate America, 70% of them report that they were brutally bullied.
And for me, I was born physically distinct, with blue eyes, like somebody else I know. And I was also born autistic , which is a neurological distinction. So I identify as a blue-eyed neurodistinct individual.
different wiring, then it also makes perfect sense that some people's wiring was evolved So sometimes instead of sharing being autistic and leaving it at that, and letting people
Now you could say that's autistic behavior or bad behavior.
And she compiled her experiences growing up autistic and her artwork into a book called "How to Be Human-- the Diary of an Autistic Girl."
What advantages would you say that an autistic mind has afforded you?
that they will somehow lose the autistic aspects of themselves.
And so I think that autistic people should be open to learning how to think like neurotypicals, learning about certain forms of body
And I think that if an autistic person expresses the desire to learn more about neurotypicals, their allies should help them do so.
Any advice for parents of autistic children?
He'd probably be labeled autistic spectrum today.
Just a picture a young autistic man sent to me to show how he has movies in his head.
All the different kind of autistic minds tend to be a bottom up thinker.
in the mind of an autistic kid and depending on your attitude you
My grandfather was the co-inventor of the autopilot for airplanes, and he was an MIT-trained mathematical engineer, typical engineer. He worked with another guy who was probably autistic who came up with this radical little idea, three little coils for the autopilot. Everybody in aviation thought it was stupid and it was totally simple.
Let's go the next slide. 20% of the people I work with on equipment were either autistic , dyslexic, or ADHD, all undiagnosed. But and how did they get into the field?
It's fine. And so Sue Ann, here at Google, we actually have one of my partners in crime in our autistic community formed a community here at Google for marginalized genders who are autistic . And so I wanted to ask you the question about, how do you feel that marginalized genders are--
And it's not the case. Asian people who are women and female aren't autistic . Not the case. So this show is amazing.
And this is something that because I am autistic , and within my autism diagnosis, I also received a sensory processing disorder,