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Drawing Autism is a book collection of images and artwork created by people who are diagnosed with autism. This collection features creations of more than 50 autistic artists around the world and illustrates the potential for art of autistic persons as well as an insight into some of the characteristics of autism.
The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880 in a statistical study about mental imagery. [2] Galton wrote: To my astonishment, I found that the great majority of the men of science to whom I first applied, protested that mental imagery was unknown to them, and they looked on me as fanciful and fantastic in supposing that the words "mental imagery" really expressed what I ...
Singer's 1998 thesis Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the Autistic Spectrum, [33] wherein she had first coined the term neurodiversity, was republished as Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea in September 2017. [34] Pablo is a British pre-school children's TV program about an autistic boy. It was first aired in October 2017.
Nadia Chomyn (24 October 1967 – 28 October 2015) was a British autistic artist who was born in Nottingham.Considered severely handicapped both intellectually and motorically, she is best known for her realistic drawings as a child prodigy, depicting mainly horses and roosters.
Engaging in special interests can bring autistic people great joy [24] [25] and many autistic people spend large amounts of time engaged in their special interest. [26] In adults, engaging with special interests has been shown to have positive outcomes for mental health, [27] self-esteem, [28] and can be used to manage stress.
He donates portions of his album sales to the benefit advocacy organization, Autism Speaks. 7. Marty Balin. The founding member of rock band Jefferson Airplane overcame partial autism as a young ...
There are many autism-related events and celebrations; including World Autism Awareness Day, Autism Sunday and Autistic Pride Day, and notable people have spoken about being autistic or are thought to be or have been autistic. Autism is diagnosed more frequently in males than in females.
The estimates range from "exceedingly rare" [18] to one in ten people with autism having savant skills in varying degrees. [1] A 2009 British study of 137 parents of autistic children found that 28% believe their children met the criteria for a savant skill, defined as a skill or power "at a level that would be unusual even for 'normal' people ...