Tag: Autistic spectrum
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Autism Awareness Week – Autism and Art
How about autism and the world of art. Just a few likely autistic people listed here, there are many more – Joy Adamson, Rafael Angevine, David Barth, Govy, Andy Warhol, Neri Avraham, L S Lowry, Michelangelo. Our museum walls would be so different. Less colour, less variety. Less exciting.
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Autism Awareness Week – Autistic people in Music
Autistic people (or with autistic traits) also feature heavily in the world of music, excelling, showing up in talent shows quite often. Just a few – Eninem, Gary Newman, Susan Boyle, Ladyhawke, Matt Savage, James Durbin, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Just listen to some of the lyrics of Gary Newman and Eninem. It will help…
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Autism Awareness Week – Autistic people in films
Yesterday I raised awareness of the autistic contribution to computing and modern technology. There are many who have contributed, as writers, actors and directors. They incude Courtney Love, Dan Akroyd, Tim Burton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Hopkins, Daryll Hannah and Orson Welles. Having autism has helped some of them they say, getting into roles…
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World Autism Awareness Week
This week is world Autism Awareness Week. Autism is an invisible, neurological condition, where the brain just processes information differently from other brains. This can bring great benefits. People with it, or who have major autism traits have greatly influenced the modern world as we know it, and made surviving COVID-19 lockdown possible for many…
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Access the Autistic Skill Set 5. Retain and flourish
Staff costs are the highest expenditure in business, so how to retain those skills within. The trained skills, the people with potential, and can grow and really benefit the business as part of teams. Just consider the cost of not understanding and losing the skills. Performance panels can lead to loss of morale, staff and…
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Mental Health and Well-being Summit – starting 1 September
I am speaking at a summit. I will be speaking on autism and work, and how to get and keep autistic people in the workplace, and thus use our skills. The other talks will also be well worth seeing and you will learn a lot. Please click on the link below. https://mental-health-and-wellbeing-summit-during-uncertai.heysummit.com/
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What are the Indications of Aspergers Syndrome — Free PLR Articles
Useful information about aspergers syndrome. Worth reading. It is important to remember that everyone is an individual and the symptoms will vary.
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Understanding Echolalia and Autism — Speaking of Autism…
Time for another installment in my “Understanding ‘X’ and Autism” posts, for all of those people out there trying to learn more and/or better understand their autistic friends and loved ones. For today’s post, we’ll start with a story. The scene is about two years ago, December of my sophomore year of high school. Every […]…
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Why do so many autistic people chew on things? — Speaking of Autism…
Find out why do so many autistic people chew on things. Why do so many autistic people chew on things? — Speaking of Autism…
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Why I can’t remember your name as an autistic person. — Speaking of Autism…
“What’s my name, Quincy?” … “Come on, we’re in the same English class, how can you not know who I am?” This has become a common interaction for me at school recently, ever since it became widespread knowledge that “Quincy can’t remember anyone’s name.” I get stopped a lot with people asking me the same […]…
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