Reply #9: I am actually presenting on autism to that very conference on Tuesday [View All]

[KamaAina]

it's a "Social Issues Roundtable", in which my role is to describe what the life of a person with autism is like, so that, hopefully, the neuroscientists will be able to conceive of interventions for us (autism isn't a disease per se, so you can't "cure" it).

One analogy I intend to use is to computer networking; it appears as though the "neurotypical" brain wiring resembles a client-server model, while the autistic one is more like a peer-to-peer network. Not "flawed", just a different architecture, running a different OS. The issue becomes one of compatibility with NT (not Windows NT :-) ).