Steve Silberman

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584 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2018 last heard Jul 2022

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 091a: A Conversation With Steve Silberman About His Book “Neurotribes” · 22 Jul 2022 podcast

These people are not like this.

You were just with them for a week.

You know, they're a full human being.

You can't say that, well, autistic people don't get humor and irony.

Are you kidding?

Like they were incredibly witty and ironic, cunningly witty and ironic, you know, at times.

So the experience of being immersed in autistic culture just for a week was like a bath that washed away my stereotypes before I started writing.

Well, one thing I like are parents, organizations, or

blogs and whatnot that are open to listening to the voices of autistic adults, because I think it's really important.

I think the future, well, even the present, but also the future of the neurodiversity movement is in neurodivergent individuals joining together with parents rather than seeing them as the enemy.

You know, some parents are the enemy and, you know, some neurodiversity activists are really rough to work with.

But in general, I think if a bridge of allyship could be built between those two communities, that it could be so powerful that it can change the world in a single generation.

And I'll give you actually two concrete examples.

There's a website called The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism.

I believe it's thinkingautism.com.

And it's, you know, it started by

Two parents, one of whom is autistic herself, as well as having a significantly disabled autistic son.

And in fact, even the neurotypical parent, Shannon Rosa, who I write about at great length in Neurotribes, her son is significantly disabled.

So when people say, oh, this neurodiversity stuff, it's just for the quote unquote high functioning chatty Aspies or whatever.

That's wrong.

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