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Despite the growing diagnosis of autism, which has been estimated to affect more than 2 million children and teens across the country, experts and advocates have bemoaned glaring gaps in services ...
Sheletta Brundidge is an American children's author, an Emmy Award winning comedian, and a local activist. [1] Brundidge has focused on autism in her books, and is an advocate for autistic people and children.
Autism Speaks Inc. is an American non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. [ 4 ]
Autistic people are also less likely to graduate from secondary school, college, or other forms of higher education, further contributing to high rates of unemployment and lower quality of life. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This failure to successfully complete education can be in part attributed to a lack of support from educational institutions.
Similarly, according to Laurent Mottron, in North America (2011), around 10% of autistic people cannot speak and 90% have no regular employment, 80% of autistic adults remain dependent on their parents; yet only a minority have an associated neurological disorder that diminishes intelligence (e.g. fragile X syndrome). [33]
Autism in Love (2015) is an American documentary film. The Autistic Gardener (2015) is a Channel 4 documentary series in which a team of autistic people redesign people's gardens. [15] Girls with Autism (2015) is a documentary following three girls at Limpsfield Grange, a specialized school in the United Kingdom. [16]
The neurodiversity paradigm is a view of autism as a different way of being rather than as a disease or disorder that must be cured. [39] [41] Autistic people are considered to have neurocognitive differences [33] which give them distinct strengths and weaknesses, and are capable of succeeding when appropriately accommodated and supported.
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.