There are many great people who we admire and not even realise they were/are autistic. Despite their shyness to socialising, they have contributed so much to society. The fact that they are all geniuses highlights the fact that we should be thankful that they walk the earth. I look at it this way. We all have a degree of autism, some more than others. In our private minds we dream of things that mankind can create and enjoy. We are all individual and peculiar in our own special way. That's what make life so wonderful.

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