God. And I really like alot of the people there, too. This really sucks. Its funny how people who claim to be so liberal (for example jon stewart, and really most of the people at the event) can treat autistics like animals while they're still nagging Bush for being "intolerant".
Thanks for the reference to the Wikipedia article about the actress, Andra. It would be nice to know if the stuff about her childhood diagnosis was written in any book or article published on paper, but since she hasn't been really famous since the 80s, there aren't any book biographies about Hannah still in my local public library system.
Yes, there's an article:
http://www.tv.com/daryl-hannah/person/12...mmary.html
It's Wikipedias reference source. I'm afraid it's not very much.
Here's the full list of references, but you probably been on that page already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autistic_people
As for the sensory overload as being unique to autism, well it isn't. One of my kids has sensory issues, but wouldn't get any kid of autism diagnosis, but is intellectually gifted. Sensory hypersensitivity has been reported as being a common chracteristic of the gifted. Sensory overload isn't a universal feature of autistics either. I don't think it's a part of the DSM diagnostic criteria. I think we need to discourage the idea of diagnosing autism on the basis of single autistic traits, even if the traits are indeed genuine individual "symptoms" of the autistic "syndrome".
I'm not sure if I understand this part of your post, was that aimed at me?
Like I haven't been diagnosed properly? :?
I mean he still could be autistic, it's just not definetely confirmed. Most sources take it for granted, that he is, that's what bothers me a little.