Professor Simon Baron-Cohen with Transforming Autism (Full Interview, Nov 2017)

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is a world-renowned developmental psychologist, author and researcher, specialising in autism. He is President of the International Society for Autism Research and Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University. Find out more about his current work at www.autismresearchcentre.com
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[@sbsman4998]

Oddest thing about Autism is simply how people respond to us, very often with an unjust mystifying cruelty. Nearly 8 decades dealing with betrayals shunning marginalizing, all the while achieving well beyond my expectations. What do they want of me? Is a loyal quirky intelligent friend worth something, maybe, but what works is guilt-free solitude, broaden interests then love your-self ~~

[@Swallabat]

To the extent that I found invariably that I can only really trust cats and machinery not to let me down.....

[@joycebrewer4150]

@@Swallabat Machinery absolutely let my family down. Example: Farm combine broken down, still a quarter of acres need harvesting, rain in forecast for tomorrow, repairman can't get needed part to repair your machine for another five days, and will take a half day to install it. Solution? Take grandpa's old farm wagon and smallest tractor to field of standing corn. Summon family to field. Have family do the work the broken combine is unable to before crop is wet in rain, requiring electric drying you can't afford because your money is going to repair shop! Work consists of breaking off ears of corn from plants, tossing into the wagon, advance tractor about five feet, repeat until field is finished, family are hungry and exhausted, well past ready for baths! Drive loaded wagon to shed, and put whole load under a roof. Will have to husk corn at a later date.

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

Daughter diagnosed at 15 saw it in my grandson at 6m Early signs with daughter was staging a play with dolls but interacting with imaginary play , no friends , no parties , lonely in playground at school, overwhelmed with homework 📚 complete meltdown, she lived in her own world and struggled in school 🏫. As her Mom I thought she was funny ,quirky , unique, endearing and entertaining with her performance 🎭. Sadly now has anorexia and works in a charity shop for experience. There should be specific jobs for these people with diversity they are so talented.

[@joycebrewer4150]

I am a late recognized autistic woman. You make the comment that women autistics may have anorexia as one way to recognize them. I am living proof that the opposite is also sometimes true! I used eating from an early age as a coping/disguising mechanism for the social anxiety I felt even as a preschool child. By the age of 7, I was obese for my age. This trend continued to the present.

[@RatsPicklesandMusic]

YES! Autistic female who suffered food addiction here!!!

[@raewynurwin4256]

Thank you Professor Simon Cohen Baron for the time and knowledge you give to mankind.

[@edwigcarol4888]

Sadly one of the problems of autism children would be to experience intolerance, teasing, shunning or even bullying through their peers at school. Dr Tony Attwood is highly committed to protect his young Patients from these Traumas.

[@delaineyjohnson8238]

Dr Attwood knows way more than this guy does and has more understanding of the disorder

[@joycebrewer4150]

My nephew is ten now, recognized as autistic at four. His special interest has always been Godzilla and other monsters. To the point that for a while, he behaved as if he were a T-Rex dinosaur himself, roaring and biting people any chance he got. And choosing to only eat meat. He is still a bully at school, any hope of redirecting him to healthier behaviours?

[@yukisanderson6907]

He is a Trex, so he won't be nice to people. It would be very nice if he could develop an interest in a hero character to help people.

[@salome_psychostudy_asd]

21:36 What is neurodiversity

[@belona1521]

slay thank u needed that for my paper

[@Swallabat]

The reason the majority of society marginalises and oppresses 1% or greater of the population...

[@PervyAutomaton]

Sure aspergers dont have learning difficulties. But 60% of all aspergers have extra things like add/adhd and learning difficulties. So it feels like neat picking.

[@Jimfrenchde]

Dr Baron-Cohen, consider privatizing your healthcare system. That way you will get rid of those horrible waiting lists.

[@sarkycutt9611]

This University Professor has no say in privatising healthcare! We have private healthcare but we also have free NHS in this country. You can pay the money or wait. My son was private but they said we would get better treatment in the NHS as they have better resources, so we stopped paying and got an awful lot of intervention and therapies that way (free).

[@Jimfrenchde]

@@sarkycutt9611 Dr Baron-Cohen can't privatize your healthcare system. You took me literally. I was trying to say that a private health care system is better. Private health care is disciplined by the market. Government health care gets funding whether or not it provides quality service.

[@michasengotta2295]

@@Jimfrenchde That's only true for a select few who could afford it. In practice, all of the lower-class and most middle-class people suffer more in privatized health-care. There's plenty of studies comparing countries by their health-care that stand behind this claim.

[@mirianakovachevic748]

@@michasengotta2295 Free health care must be standard for every first world country.What kind of society doesn't provide health care for all its members ? Just a very poor or a very sick one.

[@michasengotta2295]

@@pain5835 I am aware how money works. Though I'm convinced that everyone who needs healthcare (or food and water as you mentioned) should be provided with it, no matter their financial situation. Privatizing resources tends towards a pareto distribution, which is simply unethical for basic needs and I'm sure we can make reasonable judgements about this and don't need to lean on false humility like "who am I to judge what is ethical". Also please use some punctuation instead of focussing so much on fancy words.