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I Think The Mild Aspergers Have Always Been There. You See, Asperger's Diagnosis Did Not Become Common In The U.s. Until The Early '90s. And An Aspergers Has More Or Less Normal Speech Development And They've Always Been Here, That Hasn't Changed. I Can Think Back To When I Was In High School, This Is 40 Years Ago, I Could Name Kids In My High School Class And College Class That, Today, Would Be Diagnosed As Aspergers.

I Think It's A Real Shame So Many Schools Have Taken Out The Hands-on Classes. Art, Music, Auto Mechanics, Cooking, Sewing, These Are All Things That Can Turn Into Jobs. You Know, Wood Shop, Steel Shop, Welding. These Are All Things That Can Turn Into Great Careers, Get Kids Interested. Things They Can Do With Other Students. Other Things For Our Word Thinkers: Journalism Clubs, Drama Clubs.

Lets Get Into Talking About How Autism Is Similar Animal Behavior. The Thing Is I Dont Think In A Language, And Animals Dont Think In A Language. Its Sensory Based Thinking, Thinking In Pictures, Thinking In Smells, Thinking In Touches. Its Putting These Sensory Based Memories Into Categories.

I Get Asked A Lot Why Cats Mess Outside The Litter Box. The Simplest Thing Is If You Have More Than One Cat And You Have Two Litter Boxes, Don't Put Them Right Next To Each Other.

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.