Matthew Lawrence
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389 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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Autism
is of course going to be look different and autistic people are going to look different not just on based on who they are or where they're from, but the kind of cultural milieu and the
socio religious sort of things that where people grow up.
And, you know, the Jewish community is a very, very large community.
Um not so mu not so large a number of people.
There's estimated to be around fourteen million Jewish people in the world, so quite small a number, but quite diverse in terms of
Where in the world Jewish people live, the different types of religious practices, whether, you know, there's more kind of orthodox Jews who live in a certain socioreligious milieu, cultural milieu, there's those who are secular, there are those who are more traditional but not orthodox and are more acculturated.
Um so it's quite diverse and you know
you meet one Jewish person, you've met one Jewish person, doesn't necessarily mean there's anything in common.
Just like if you meet one autistic person, you meet one autistic person.
But it is a distinct culture, um, a distinct way of growing up, distinct community in which certain autistic traits
um may it look different and autism presents differently in Jewish people, just like autism presents differently in all sorts of people based on that background in which they grow up.
Um, which in certain contexts can make it harder to identify autistic people.
In the Jewish community.
And also there's a lot more room for acceptance in some Jewish communities, but also a much higher level of stigma.
What's also super interesting in some research that's been done is that actually autistic people are more prevalent in the Jewish community than in the non-Jewish world, right?
While the number that we always use is 3% of the population is seen as autistic.
Jewish population it's actually up to seven percent.
Um so a much higher rate of autistic people in the population, uh which we can certainly see, like in you know, in like day to day life.
Uh and actually what I would even argue is that
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