 | At AV we view our community's neuro-differences through a strengths based lens. Our autistic minds have a different way of operating that is different to the nerve-normative model used by our medical community. Often our community are diagnosed through the deficit lens of the medical model where challenges and issues are highlighted more than our strengths. A key aim for our organisation is to help our autistics realise we are not defective, just different. And discover our individual strengths- often beyond a neuro-normal mind. With many of our challenges being due to the lack of a suitable environment we are in, or the individual communication challenges of our neurology or trauma. However we see in our peer groups and activities how our challenges melt away with peer to peer in the right environment where stressors are managed. Critical to empowering our autistics is understanding and acceptance with a strengths based view of each individual and their way of living. |
People you know who may have Aspergers MINDS
Famous Aspie People mentioned or surmised to BE Aspergers AUTISTICS. Those with ‘C’ are confirmed:
C=confirmed
Bill Gross - successful investment manager (C): his video about his diagnosis is here Dan Aykroyd – Comedic Actor (C) Hans Christian Andersen – Children’s Author Benjamin Banneker – African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer Susan Boyle – Singer (C) Tim Burton – Movie Director (C) David Campion - champion snowboarder Lewis Carroll – Author of “Alice in Wonderland” Henry Cavendish – Scientist Charles Darwin – Naturalist, Geologist, and Biologist Emily Dickinson – Poet Paul Dirac – Physicist Albert Einstein – Scientist & Mathematician Bobby Fischer – Chess Grandmaster Bill Gates – Co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation Temple Grandin – Animal Scientist (C) Daryl Hannah – Actress & Environmental Activist (C) Thomas Jefferson – Early American Politician Steve Jobs – Former CEO of Apple James Joyce – Author of “Ulysses” Alfred Kinsey – Sexologist & Biologist Stanley Kubrick – Film Director Barbara McClintock – Scientist and Cytogeneticist Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet Chris Packham - naturalist, TV presenter (C) Gary Numan - singer and songwriter Michael Burry - USA physician, investor and hedge fund manager: Movie the Big Short based on him (C) Dawn Prince-Hughes - PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation Jerry Newport - American author and mathematical savant, basis of the film Mozart and the Whale John Elder Robison - author of Look Me in the Eye Judy Singer - Australian disability rights activist, sociologist who coined term neurodiversity Liane Holliday Willey - author of Pretending to be Normal, Asperger Syndrome in the Family; Asperger syndrome advocate; education professor; and adult diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 35 Travis Meeks - lead singer, guitarist and song writer for acoustic rock band Days of the New | Lizzy Clark - actress and campaigner Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Classical Composer Ulysse Delsaux & Cody Ware - Racecar drivers (C) Sir Isaac Newton – Mathematician, Astronomer, & Physicist Carl Sagan - Astronomer (C) Jerry Seinfeld – Comedian Satoshi Tajiri – Creator of Nintendo’s Pokémon (C) Nikola Tesla – Inventor Andy Warhol – Artist Ludwig Wittgenstein – Philosopher William Butler Yeats – Poet Donna Williams - autism advocate, author, speaker, change maker and more (C) Alix Generous - professional speaker, neuroscientist, author, artist, consultant, comedian, and media producer (C) Carly Fulgham - technology project lead for national bank and is President of Autism Society of America Ventura (C) Marie-Curie - scientist who pioneered research on radioactivity Barbara McClintock – Scientist and Cytogeneticist Francis Galton - scientist, mathematician and discovered fingerprints Sir Isaac Newton Stephen Fry – actor (C) Courtney Love - actor, musician and was the wife of Kurt Cobain (C) James Durbin - musician Paddy Considine - actor (C) Clay Marzo - professional surfer (C) Daniel Tammet - savant Gary Numan - British singer and songwriter Sir Anthony Hopkins – actor (C) Barry Humphries – actor (C) Alan Turing - father of modern computing, mathematician and logician, code breaker in WW2 Henry Ford - maker of Ford Dan Harmon - Comedy fans will recognize Dan Harmon as the writer and creator of the hit show Community (C) Heather Zumich- top model (C) Dr. Vernon Smith - Professor of Economics, Chapman University, practically invented the field of experimental economics — an achievement for which he won the Nobel Prize in 2002. Credits Aspergers for his success. (C) Alexis Wineman - first Miss America and model (C) Adam Young - the singer and songwriter behind Owl City, is a successful musician with Aspergers
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