Barry Prizant
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
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And a couple of other quick points as part of the big message is that the best way to understand autism is to listen to autistic people.
Listen to what they have to say, learn from what they have to say.
And that's a huge difference, of course, between now and twenty years ago.
Twenty years ago the only voice was Temple Grandon.
And now we have hundreds, if not thousands, of autistic people who are giving lectures, writing books, and they're they're telling us what we've gotten wrong as professionals all these years.
And then finally, I really try to get across the point that autism isn't something that's in a person.
Autism is a shared human experience.
When I am with a person with autism, I need to change the way I talk, the way I react if I want to have a successful time with that person in many cases.
And it's also a shared human experience in that I've become a better person by knowing people with autism.
Um
As long as we view autism as a condition within a person, and if you don't like what you see, then that gives license to people to try to change and fix the person without taking the personal responsibility as a professional or as a parent.
How do I need to change to best develop a trusting relationship and therefore be best able to support this person well?
Yeah.
Well so I would say some of the concepts were breakthrough, but some of the concepts are also kind of consistent with and building on what I refer to as the autism revolution, this kind of tsunami, this wave of change, as clearly indicated in Steve Silberman's incredible book, NeuroTribes, in in in so many different ways now.
So I see I see
The book is part of a movement and certainly what autistic people are telling us.
It's a very, very big part of that as well.
So um yeah, the the initial reaction to the book, um, and if anybody wants to see detailed reactions directly from people, they can go to the Amazon page, you know, from Uniquely Human.
What's been so gratifying is the breadth of interest and positive response.
Parents of newly diagnosed kids, parents of adult individuals on the autism spectrum have said, Oh my God, this is so consistent.
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