Autistic children never get bored.

I say might , because no two autistic kids, or autistic people, are the same.

View him not as an autistic person, but as a person who is autistic.

So a lot of autistic kids are autistic because they just lost a big piece of DNA.

Autistic children don't know what boredom is.

Because the thing about being autistic is,

Temple Grandin and Natalie Flanagan were also autistic savants.

Because autistic or not, the differences that we have

On the other hand, many autistic people are incredibly neat and hardworking, and, even occasionally, an autistic person will have savant abilities.

Now, let's see what's happening with babies who became autistic.

When I have a mother of an autistic child say,

It turned out that Justin was almost certainly not autistic.

Anorexic brains are wired differently, or Autistic brains are wired differently.

I'm a savant, or more precisely, a high functioning autistic savant.

Like many autistic children, his mind was locked inside his body.

But, what if you're autistic and don't have a theory of mind?

Now, the thing about the autistic mind is it attends to details.

The thing about the autistic mind is it tends to be fixated.

Many autistic people are lacking a theory of mind. So, here's an example.

But if there is someone here who has an autistic child, or knows an autistic child and feels kind of cut off from them, what advice would you give them?

The first of these two, when meeting an autistic person, put his autism second.

I watched one of these movies and it helped me understand autistic people better.

The autistic man, Rain Man, has counted 246 spilled toothpicks, in a matter of seconds.

People who have problems with empathy, such as autistic children, they don't have yawn contagion.

We saw one autistic kid, about five million bases just missing from one of his chromosomes.

I mean, Einstein and Mozart and Tesla would all be probably diagnosed as autistic spectrum today.

Now, I want to emphasize that not every autistic kid is going to be a visual thinker.

A striking example of this is a young autistic student named Omar, shown her with his dad.

I think it will cost at least 10 to 20 before you'd be in a position to help parents who've had an autistic child, or think they may have an autistic child, and can we spot the difference?

You see, the autistic mind tends to be a specialist mind good at one thing, bad at something else.

And, although some autistic may act in a way that we consider to be bad, often they can't help it.

My friend and I agree that men are form Mars, women are from Venus, and autistic people are from Pluto.

You see, autism can affect people's senses or their mind, making strengths and weaknesses different from ours common in autistic people.

So, now you know a little more about autism and, hopefully, why an autistic person might act the way they do.

In the United States, probably the most astonishing statistic is a 600 percent increase in autism and autistic spectrum disorders and other learning disabilities.

OK, this is a test where you either have to pick out the big letters, or pick out the little letters, and the autistic mind picks out the

So, here, mice that are autistic like display less communication, as depicted by the blue bar, and treating them with the bug corrects this effect, as shown by the red bar.

Now, this may be a little hypocritical of me, as I've been calling people with autism autistic people throughout this whole speech, but, nevertheless, this is what I want you to do.

When parents say 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they're really saying is 'I wish the child I have did not exist and I had a different, non autistic child instead.'

But what lifted my heart and strengthened my soul was that even though this was the case, although they were not seen as ordinary, this could only mean one thing that they were extraordinary autistic and extraordinary.

They range from this fluffy toy that is about hugging you because autistic children like to be hugged tight, so it has a spring inside all the way to this doll with a mirror so the child can see him or herself in the mirror and regain a sense of self.