By Simon Baron-Cohen — 2019
It remains controversial—but it doesn’t have to be. We need to embrace both the neurodiversity model and the medical model to fully understand autism.
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Because I’m at ease with my disability and have grown to understand my limitations, it’s been easier for me to figure out solutions to what might be everyday obstacles to other people.
What I’m hoping to do here is help portray the incapacitated form in an optimistic light and defy the labels enforced upon us by society.
Many studies have been done in the corporate world and the most successful people were interviewed to find out what was the secret. And it was repeatedly discovered that they all attributed their success not to the skill set that they possessed, but to the attitude that they had cultivated.
Your life depends on your brain. To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. You need your brain and you also need to use your brain. It is not enough to possess a perfectly good brain—you must also use it.
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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Want to grow your well-being? Here are the skills you need.
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Your emotional health is key to a happy life.