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30 Jan 2014, 2:08 pm

i know there arent many theres like Temple Grandin and, Carly Fleishman but there might be more im not aware of.

for me, i relate best Temple Grandin, because we both have the same sensory issues and we both like animals and building.

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30 Jan 2014, 2:25 pm

Never heard of Carly Fleishman. Are you counting Alex?

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30 Jan 2014, 2:31 pm

Willard wrote:

Never heard of Carly Fleishman. Are you counting Alex?

yes and you should look her up, shes 19 and wrote a book with her dad

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30 Jan 2014, 2:52 pm

Not really a celebrity but Jacob Barnett fascinate me.

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30 Jan 2014, 4:13 pm

ZombieBrideXD wrote:

i know there arent many theres like Temple Grandin and, Carly Fleishman but there might be more im not aware of.

You can find 42 others on this list: "Books By People With ASDs".

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30 Jan 2014, 4:23 pm

Alex Plank, of course!

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30 Jan 2014, 4:37 pm

Currently Carly Fleischmann and also that person who wrote the book though the eyes of aliens.

Although she's not an advocate nor famous.

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30 Jan 2014, 6:20 pm

Mine is Carly Fleishmann, another is a long time member of Wrongplanet - KingdomOfRats.

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30 Jan 2014, 8:57 pm

I like Carly. I'd be honored to meet her in person.

My absolute favorite? Alexis Wineman. She's my celebrity crush, and that's despite the fact that's she's spent way too much with Jenny McCarthy and a ton of others who think that autism can be cured, a fact that sort of bugs me a little (you can say that "you can't cure what isn't a disease" and hang out with the drama queen of autism moms). But I'd like to know her actual points of view on autism, if she agrees with them or if she just went along with it. Would I be honored to meet Alexis? Regardless, yes!

Given the chance to have lunch with her or President Obama, I'd take her, no offense to POTUS.

A close second is John Elder Robsion, with a third being Jerry Newport.

Then again, I heard on The Middle tonight this little tidbit: "Don't meet your heroes." There might be a point to this.

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31 Jan 2014, 6:25 am

Temple Grandin, John Elder Robison and Amanda Baggs.

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31 Jan 2014, 4:15 pm

Pope Benedict XVI.

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31 Jan 2014, 4:47 pm

I like many of them - Temple Grandin (got to meet her at a conference once ) Donna Williams, Sean Barron, Liane Holliday Willey, Rudy Simone, Carly Fleischman, Jennifer McIlwee Meyers, John Elder Robison, Maja Toudal, Amanda Baggs, KingdomOfRats, and of course, Alex Plank.

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31 Jan 2014, 6:10 pm

Northeastern292 wrote:

I like Carly. I'd be honored to meet her in person.

me too, me too!

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31 Jan 2014, 6:53 pm

LtlPinkCoupe wrote:

I like many of them - Temple Grandin (got to meet her at a conference once

) Donna Williams, Sean Barron, Liane Holliday Willey, Rudy Simone, Carly Fleischman, Jennifer McIlwee Meyers, John Elder Robison, Maja Toudal, Amanda Baggs, KingdomOfRats, and of course, Alex Plank.

KingdomOfRats...never met him. Alex is significant in his own right (WP has 80,000+ members: that's bigger than the population of some cities!). And JER is one of the coolest people you'll ever meet.

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Northeastern292 wrote:

I like Carly. I'd be honored to meet her in person.

me too, me too!

I don't think a lot of our American friends know who Carly is because she's from...ta-dah! Toronto, the 905! (I don't know where in Toronto Carly lives, and if I did, that'd be weird).

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31 Jan 2014, 7:00 pm

Amanda Baggs, because she thinks all autistics deserve acceptance.

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31 Jan 2014, 7:17 pm

Alex, because this forum changed my life.

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