There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

I am a big believer in early intervention.

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.