Published on 12, July, 2020
I have read in several different places that Lionel Messi is autistic, it is said he may have been diagnosed as a child in Argentina before he moved to Spain at 13, and reading books and articles about him and seeing how he talks in interviews and how he is on the pitch a lot of his personality and behaviour would fit with an autistic person. I found it really comforting and inspirational when he won the World Cup yesterday. It felt like NT people always reject us and look down on us and make us feel we are not as good as them and yet an autistic person is the absolute best in the world at something. It made me almost cry with happiness, like a victory for autistic people.
I believe Albert Einstein may have been autistic too. I teach other autistic kids and when they put themselves down and see their autism as something that makes us inferior, I say to them the most intelligent man in history and the greatest footballer in history are both autistic.
I read that about Albert Einstein as well - yay, I love reading that some historical figures might have been autistic. Shows we're all capable of so much!
We are.
I kid you not, I'm involved in some really cutting edge science with a few other "people like me" and we can do nuclear fusion stuff on the kitchen table (and not describe it very well) that people who can describe things very well, simply cannot comprehend or explain. It's hard to tell exactly what we are doing, as we lack the billion dollar facilities that everyone else seems to need to do a very similar thing indeed. OR even a few those thousand quid to throw at getting some mass spectrometry tests done, and buying some more deuterium tubes and big mos fets.
Ten years, 200,000 quid in parts and labour, the guy who invented the device is about to croak it, so this week WE GO PUBLIC, (or at least share it widely with other groups who do this sort of thing, less sucessfully than we do.).