"I think it did a good job of like illustrating the point that, you know, he people with autism spectrum disorder, people what would have been called asperger's are frequently very highly intelligent," she said. "There's almost like there's islands of high intelligence and then on a social relatedness scale, an emotional scale, not so much."
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11 we discuss the tragically beautiful Academy Award nominated film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. In this episode we discuss the unique journey of Oskar Schell as he processes the life changing event of losing the person who understood him best in the world while simultaneously living through the collective trauma of the September 11th attacks. We are joined by special guests Dr. David Paltin who is an expert in Neuro-Atypical Presentations and Andrew Rubin who is the president of Symptom Media.
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