Surprise! Your Child Has Autism. Now What? by Jim St. Leger, Ep 83

[bmccall17]

I LOVE THIS TALK!!! Super fun and powerful all wrapped into a beautiful IGNITE format! More people need to see it!

[pinkkrissy66]

love your presentation, thanks:)

[BraydenHull]

Strangely enough I watched this on another Ignite channel a while ago about this and thought not much of it and then a few weeks after that I had to see a psychologist and got diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome.

[TheIntelJim]

One of the amazing things about some autism spectrum disorder children is their ability in certain focused areas. They often are simply brilliant. They can bring a level of focus and depth that most of us could never achieve. It could be technology (computers, electronics, etc; read "Look Me In The Eye" by John Elder Robison for a great example), music (read "Parallel Play" by Tim Page), science (dinosaurs, chemistry, etc.), sports (never challenge them on stats), etc.

Amazing kids/people.

[MsAnthropy]

I'm not saying there might be a correlation, but my father is a mechanical engineer for the gov my husband a plumber and construction worker my grandpa worked for the phone company. 2/3 left handed. My son was diagnosed severly autistic, and could fix any computer at age 8.

[lehman]

Remember, vaccines didn't cause it.

[ogrish84]

Great advice!

[fitzerg]

LOL I like his irony. If you still believe in funding these autism research groups, you might need to get your brain checked for autism.

[conceitarturo]

@fitzerg seriously? what's the problem with them?

[lulhoofd1]

Kinda weird that engineers are twice as likely since being an engineer obviously does nothing for your genetics meaning that he cause of authism in a kid born to engineer parents would be authistic thanks to nurture instead of nature.. Dont really buy it.

[saucylad]

@lulhoofd1 Correlation does not equal causation, it could be true but irrelevant

[Bryelee]

@lulhoofd1 They are talking about genetics. Some people believe Autism runs in families and a high functioning person would be more likely to work in a specific field. They aren't saying if you are a engineer you will have a child with Autism.

[varsamop]

@lulhoofd1 It is not a cause-and-effect relationship; take it more like a correlation: through population studies, engineers have autistic children more often than the general population. If you want to look into cause-and-effect, think what kind of career someone with autism and math-oriented brain would take.

[poopdude]

That was really informational, learned lots of things that I didn't know about autism.

Interesting part about engineers having twice the chances of a kid that has autism. I'm studying to be an engineer right now, so we shall see.

[EpicPoseidonBeard]

Thank you ignite for covering this condition. Its certainly made me learn infinately more about autism, vs the little info I get from the mainstream media.