"Ten Minutes with Dr. Tony" - An Autism Hangout Special Report

[MsCaz007]

I had the pleasure of seeing Tony in Sydney several years ago. My beautiful son who is 21 has AS and is a delight to all that know him. He's a gentle soul that just needs to find his nitch in life. They have much to offer but are so often misunderstood. Thank you Tony for all your help making others see these kids for who they are and how great they can be if given the right advice and help.

[welcomesodoing]

Beautiful, angels, yes those on the spectrum are the cream of the crop. I think we can learn much from the really great achievers too, while early-assisting the kids. (Because they will be adults eventually.) ...4eg. I think the great spiritual thinkers (and meaningful-artists) have all been on the spectrum: concepts and non-ego wonderment, breadth and depth, are primarily autistic.

I think we can learn- as Oscar Wilde would say, from their 'mistakes'/experience; see their genius as "therapy".

[welcomesodoing]

On eastern Insight and autism (an untapped direction so far): on the spectrum we tend to lack a 'self'/ego. The world is more intrusive!

So as Buddha said; attachment/desire/connection causes pain... in us, not from ego but from the outside inward. 'Artificial desire'. In other words, we may want to be in the world, but 1) we unify and fixate alot, leading to overreaching; 2) our 5 senses overload without even 'trying' to desire; 3) we don't have a nature "space" between in/out.

Meditation...

[welcomesodoing]

...meditation, and seeing different ways of viewing the world: can show us 'other places' (where we can relax/re-group). "Mindfulness", is the most popular version of this.

Buddhism teaches how to separate not just from connections though; it teaches how to move from the whole to the details, back again, and to find the world anew as not 'sticking to us'. (Hinduism is a deeper experience, even better. Christianity is compatible with both.)

For me, autistic: society is accessible no other way.

[rclark23]

@welcomesodoing Is the use of DMT ever used in these Buddist traditions,, sounds like some very in depth exploration of the inner consciousness

[bluenazz]

Craig, Thanks so much for this series of interviews with Dr. Tony!

[mamalusk]

Sucsess story: My son who has AS (he is now 24) has been headhunted to a small private company that does programming for other companies - he is a trained computorprogrammer (bachelor) - and he was gives a steady job in this company before his trial period of 3 months was over, because they liked him from day 1. I suspect that some of the other workers there (and maybe even the leader) also are on or near the autism spectrum....

[gahana108]

Great interview. One of my favorite experts. So much inner knowing and compassion. Not trying to change them, rather, embracing their "differences".

Johnny Seitz is a success autistic. I know him and his wife personally. :)

[misstiggykins]

Tony Attwood is really awesome. I had the absolute pleasure of meeting him this summer in the UK. Thanks for the video :)