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1. Susan Boyle. The Scottish singer became an international star after appearing on 'Britain's Got Talent' in 2009. Boyle was diagnosed with a Asperger Syndrome - a form of autism - later in life.
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Some autistic people, as well as a growing number of researchers, [14] have advocated a shift in attitudes toward the view that autism spectrum disorder is a difference, rather than a disease that must be treated or cured. [387] [388] Critics have bemoaned the entrenchment of some of these groups' opinions. [389] [390] [391] [392]
Emergence: Labeled Autistic (with Margaret Scariano, 1986, updated 1991), ISBN 0-446-67182-7; The Learning Style of People with Autism: An Autobiography (1995). In Teaching Children with Autism : Strategies to Enhance Communication and Socialization, Kathleen Ann Quill, ISBN 0-8273-6269-2
In decades past, many psychiatrists were unwilling to diagnose mental health disorders in autistic people, believing "it was either part of the autism or for other reasons it was undiagnosable ...
Many people have heard the term autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder, but few people understand autism, and many autistic people still do not feel ... as well as families caring for individuals with ...
See also the policy at Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people regarding categorization by ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability This category is for autistic people who were diagnosed or self-diagnosed with the former diagnosis Asperger syndrome .
Around 700,000 people in the UK are autistic, and only one in three autistic adults are in any form of employment – the lowest figure across all disability groups.