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is a big continuum of uneven skills consisting of visual thinkers, pattern thinkers (mathematicians, programmers) and word thinkers.

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

is clustered around the big tech centers, which concentrates the autistic genes in children in places like Silicon Vally.

In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

is a kind of spatial map-memory and calculation that are in fact quite similar to some of the skills that animals have.

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.

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