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Bloodheart
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05 Apr 2013, 7:39 pm

Can you list some SUCCESSFUL autistic people (not just famous)?

Success is a bit of a vague term, basically I'm looking for people who would be good role models for young autistic people and good examples to parents of more severely autistic children to say 'look, it's not a life sentence', as many suggestions as possible please folks :)

For example Temple Grandin or Dr. John Robert Hall III.


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05 Apr 2013, 8:04 pm

Kerry Margo.


http://www.myautismmyvoice.com/



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05 Apr 2013, 8:08 pm

I practiced medicine for nine years and now am a social worker in a good marriage.



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05 Apr 2013, 8:09 pm

cathylynn wrote:
I practiced medicine for nine years and now am a social worker in a good marriage.


I'd say that qualifies you! :)


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05 Apr 2013, 9:11 pm

John Elder Robison


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05 Apr 2013, 9:15 pm

If you are interested, here is a link to my story on Autism Society. I've been very fortunate.

http://www.autism-society.org/news/lees-story.html



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05 Apr 2013, 9:19 pm

A mentor of mine. Retired marine, now a research scientist. Totally autistic. I don't know how she managed it.


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05 Apr 2013, 9:27 pm

i have a friend who had severe aspergers and couldn't socialize without an argument or some other fit erupting. years later now, he's so normal and no one would ever know. he's a role model to me.



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05 Apr 2013, 9:54 pm

Dr. Michael Burry. He was a physician whose special interest in the stock market led him to create his own hedge fund. He made a massive amount of money by seeing the collapse of the mortgage market before anyone else. He's profiled in L(he Big Short" by Michael Lewis(the guy behind "21") and its a fascinating story. Reading about him and wanting to know more about this "Asperger's" thing is what made me discover this site. Dr. Burry is a hero of mine.