The Importance of Being Different

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I was just having a conversation with someone who was diagnosed with autism within the last six months. I'm not sure I've ever met anybody as exceptionally brilliant at being able to articulate how concepts work with other concepts. What they show a strength in is analyzing systems and sometimes you see it just in the play of a young autistic child where they become fascinated by the water coming out of the tap or the faucet. They may be watching the same Disney cartoon a hundred times because they're really analyzing the sequence of information so that they can anticipate and spot every detail. It's this remarkable attention to detail and memory for detail often translates into a capacity to invent, to think differently, do things

Have you ever felt that you were neurodiverse in some way? Did you ever struggle with the traditional school system? Did you or someone you know take away from school the worst of all possible learnings, that you or they were unintelligent? Well, today I have invited Professor Simon Barron-Cohen, the author of The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention, to be on the show. This is part one of two interviews in which Simon takes from his 40 years of research at the University of Cambridge in order to help people who are neurodiverse, particularly people on the autistic spectrum, to be able to operate at their very best, and for the rest of us to be able to figure out how to work with them so that we can draw the best from them. By the end of this interview, you will better understand how to utilize your neurodiversity and the people that you live and work with.

Learn more about Sir Barron-Cohen here: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/staff/simon-baron-cohen/

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