The Autistic Brain Tends To

Autism Is A Neurological Disorder. It's Not Caused By Bad Parenting. It's Caused By, You Know, Abnormal Development In The Brain. The Emotional Circuits In The Brain Are Abnormal. And There Also Are Differences In The White Matter, Which Is The Brain's Computer Cables That Hook Up The Different Brain Departments.

I'm Seeing Too Many Kids Where They Get Fixated On Their Own Autism. I'd Rather Have Them Get Fixated That They Like Programming Computers Or They Like Art Or They Want To Sing In The Church Choir Or They Want To Train Dogs, You Know, Something That They Can Turn Into A Career.

The People That Were Socially Awkward From My Generation, They All Had Paper Routes And That Taught Them The Discipline Of Work.

The Thing Is, Autism Is All Different, You Know, Variables. And You Start Out With A Certain Amount Of, You Know, The Point Where The Differences In The Brain Are Going To Just Be A Personality Variant And, Like, For Very Mild Asperger's. But You Get Into More Severe Kinds Of Autism Where There's Obvious Speech Delay, Obvious Abnormal Behavior In A Two And Three-year-old Child, You Know, The Initial Neurology Is Different From Case To Case. But All Children With Autism Are Going To Do Better If They Get Really Good Educational Intervention.

The World Needs Different Kinds Of Minds To Work Together.