Steve Silberman
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584 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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There's another book out there called The Real Experts that was written by autistic people that has some very hopeful and inspiring messages from autistic people to young autistic people.
And I think autistic
Peer mentoring is really important.
I've seen the magic that can happen when even a nonverbal kid hangs out with an autistic adult who is verbal, you know, and there's...
So many times these days you hear, well, you know, quote, unquote, low-functioning people and high-functioning people, they don't even have the same condition.
Well, if you put a nonverbal child with an autistic adult who can talk, you often see that they relate to one another.
Temple Grandin talks about this, too.
from personal experience, that there's a kind of vibe that they can get on that is good for both of them.
And so I think autistic peer mentoring is going to be a really big thing in the future.
And so those are the directions that I see us going.
Thanks so much.
I really appreciate it.
And it's been a delight.
I no longer think of neurodiversity as like a political stance or even a movement.
I think of it as a living fact, like biodiversity.
And we can pathologize it endlessly and say, you know, that all these variations are diseases or syndromes or whatever, which was the approach for most of the 20th century.
Or we can celebrate that diversity as a gift to our society and
that requires us to be responsible and to provide people with whatever they need to achieve success in whatever form their success would be.
Hey, Debbie, I'm really honored to be here.
Thank you for asking me to be on the show.
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