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KamaAina

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Thu May-29-08 08:27 PM
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56. Most people with autism do not have weird facial tics

Edited on Thu May-29-08 08:28 PM by KamaAina

not that I ever heard of. Next you'll be telling me Joe Cocker has autism. :-)

Actually you probably have seen a singer who has autism, or Asperger's at any rate, in action -- none other than David Byrne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne_%28musician%29#Recent_activity

Byrne was profiled in the New York Times in January, 2007. The article refers to his April 15, 2006 journal entry, in which he wrote: “I was a peculiar young man — borderline Asperger's, I would guess.”

Score one for our team!

edit: oh right, we do not "suffer" from autism. We merely "have" it.

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