A good book on this subject: "Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extra Ordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain differences.
It seems like it must have been about a year ago that I read this book. I believe the author stated that we are all affected by disorders in one way or another. In other words, no brain is perfect and disorders come with gifts.
Some interesting facts: He said there's a higher than usual percentage of autistic people living in Silicon Valley, California, because they are good at designing software etc.. Also, he put forth the idea that Albert Einstein was Austic. His great achievments in science supposedly were partly due to the fact that he could stay narrowly focused on a problem for long periods of time, to the exclusion of everything else. Given that outlook, should we hope for a cure or learn to appreciate and celibrate their achievements? He thinks we need all kinds of people thinking in different ways.
Perhaps someone should start a club in The Villages for neurodiversity and bring all those people together who have the brain differences mentioned in the title of his book.
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