who is your favorite autism advocate/ celebrity

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vickygleitz
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31 Jan 2014, 7:34 pm

My top pick as well!

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01 Feb 2014, 7:35 pm

Arman Khodaei and Stephen Shore deserve exemplary mentions.

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01 Feb 2014, 8:13 pm

Daryl Hannah. She has aspergers. I love her because I watch the film blade runner every day, sometimes the entire day. And you can tell she is aspergers only in interviews. She's the character "Pris" in the film Blade Runner and the girl with the eye patch in Kill Bill.

I watched blade runner repeatedly everyday before I even knew I was aspergers. When I found out, I googles "celebs with aspergers" and I was ecstatic to see that an actress in my movie obsession had aspergers too.

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01 Feb 2014, 8:29 pm

I hate them all.

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01 Feb 2014, 10:29 pm

As cliched as it is, I'd have to say Temple Grandin. She has done a lot for the causes of animal welfare and autism awareness/acceptance.

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01 Feb 2014, 10:46 pm

Londonopolis wrote:

loved her in Kill Bill

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02 Feb 2014, 11:30 am

I don't follow the whole celebrities/famous people thing so much, so I cannot provide any relevant response to the question posed by the OP.

In the end, I can only surmise that anyone who claims to publicly represent Spectrumites are either attempting to mislead the public or are genuinely interested in the advancement of our kind.

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05 Feb 2014, 1:03 am

Definitely Maja Toudal. I just checked out her album a couple days ago and was very impressed. I can't understand why she doesn't consider herself a very good singer...but then I guess everyone is their own worst critic.

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18 Feb 2014, 10:27 am

Well, me? :wink:

I mean everyone of us who is going "public" is doing something for the rest of us who can't go public and make themselves heard.
Going public is hard, when you are autistic and used to get bullied, pushed around and treated as is if you're stupid.
And then there are the haters...

So all of us who are willing to live through this are my heros.
The big names like Temple Grandin as much as all the bloggers who are talking about autism in their daily life.

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