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Don't let anyone tell you "No" because you have Autism

I have overheard so many different things throughout the years, it wasn't always to my face, but they had said it so that I could hear it personally. It was because they couldn't tell me to m y face directly because they were too chicken or not woman or man enough. Same to you, don't let anyone treat you this way. If someone can't tell you directly to your face without giving you solid information, then their advice and opinions don't count. Autism has a wide range of intelligence scores. It's not the scores that count though, if you have a good mind and great ideas, someone's going to take notice.
      Illness is a factor too, there's no limitations to an amount of potential someone has regard of illness. If you have cancer, you can still make an impact by trying something you can do within those abilities that you do have. If you look at my small website   You will notice there are autistic writers, behavioral scientists, composers with autism, a prince from Thailand who died in a tsnuami and many more who made an impact on the world around them. Autism in most cases attacks the auditory and sensory parts of the brain, sometimes that's the only issue.
As I go back and think about my life, I notice that there wasn't any real understanding in some of the things I faced during my childhood. Individuals in some cases did not act in civilized mannerisms. I grew up around lots of kids who didn't have disorders. I realize that most of my mannerisms didn't come from many of those around me but from my grandmother who was an educator. I always wondered why I was different from my siblings, it wasn't because I was autistic, but an observer.
Distortion can happen in other disorders, not just autism. Autism, if treated as a
 nuero-typical can accelerate learning behaviors just as intelligent in academics. Sometimes coordination is different in various degrees of autism, but knowledge is can be a catalyst in business, community and in society as a whole. If a person can bring a different point of view in to the floor, they can extremely change things.  Thanks for reading and have a good day.