NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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“If you meet one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,”
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as if the idea of friendships based on shared interests was clinically suspicious.
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By autistic standards, the “normal” brain is easily distractible, is obsessively social, and suffers from a deficit of attention to detail and routine.
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Thus people on the spectrum experience the neurotypical world as relentlessly unpredictable and chaotic, perpetually turned up too loud, and full of people who have little respect for personal space.