So grateful that I can call this amazing, confident, and articulate girl one of my best friends. She is just as wonderful in her daily interactions as she is in this interview! I'm so proud of all that you have accomplished, Georgia, and can't wait to see where life takes you!

Georgia's parents must be, quite rightly, very proud. This is an inspiring insight into a widely misunderstood condition.

But autistic people shouldn't have to expend all their energy trying to be like neurotypicals. It would be nice if they were just allowed to be themselves. This idea that you have to "pass" is very flawed.

What a lovely and clever girl. She had to make lots of work to be able to communicate so well. It's very interesting ehat shr's saying.

Everyone is confronted with a challenge, be it physical, mental, psychological, spiritual, intellectual,monetary, verbal, sexual,emotional,social etc. Some are more severe than others. But hey, we all have to march along & learn as you go along.

this girl's a genius; i looked at her book.

Good talk! I just saw this today and realized that it’s a few years old - as she was getting ready to attend college. It would great if the organizer can invite her back for a follow-up conversation. I hope she is doing well.

Danm... in spite of having difficulty with social cues and situations, she is far more eloquent than I am...

I won a National Poetry award at 15 and had it published speaking in front of over 200 people I’m an aspie, now due to excessive bullying from people all my life now I’ve lost my confidence and suffering from ptsd that I have had to leave the workforce. I’m now 37.

Wow...this was so insightful. Thank you for uploading this

Georgia is an amazing young woman. Hope her parents are proud.

Thank y'all so much for sharing your perspectives. Hearing others speak has been really helpful in identifying traits in myself that have convinced me that it's time to get tested. I never realized I could possibly have aspergers until new data was studied and many more people began sharing their experiences. With more exposure to information like this, I'm finding many resources that are helping me with issues I've struggled with my whole life but never realized there was already so much support for.

georgia, you are brilliant!

She’s wonderful..!!!!

I flap my hands too! I thought I was the only one!

always remember therapy is basekly beang able to see things in a new light. an example to that is: when I was a kid I wase wery drawn to observing many things and especialy other people. I had spesefic forms of comunication disability and I strugled to speek in a corectly way, but I becam better afterwards, I learnd to observe and study paterns of people more deeply from my mom I then wanted to see how other people talked so I studied how they used theyr paterns celebritis paterns, saw how the presidents, youtubers, political figures talked and spoke, I then noticed that when I moved down deeper in the comunication paterns I noticed my own paterns began to be more sharpened and refined and began to becom more like a political talker than normal and my family noticed that I was good at talking, almost to good, the reson for that was I talked to mutch and everyone arond me got tired of me, that is why I becom so good at it. keep one praticing people.

Thanks for this

Aye, those who kick together stick together. I love that. I'm a black belt in Taekwondo and I really agree with that lol

You are so brave! Thank you!

I have Aspergers, and had occupational therapy whenI was 6. I didn’t really have many accommodations, but I tend to take tests in a separate environment

This was great. I'm wired up like her. Except my moral compass got messed up from addictions mostly brought about because I went undiagnosed for close to 4 decades. Lot's and lots of trauma, frustration, confusion and heartbreak. Look out for the younger generation so they can get their needs addressed.....my family had their heads in the sand.

In a 1990 case against the Missouri dept of health we have the right to refuse medical diagnosis. Missouri dept of health is to be considered a criminal organization

I also have to look at people to know what they are saying ... the extra stimulation in face to face situations require that.

Where can I buy her book? I don’t I’ve in US.

Untraumatized, privileged girl, good for her, but painful to listen to, - it makes me aware of all personal development andself-actualization i have missed, not being supported, stimulated, regulated, challenged,encouraged, empowered and promoted.

Good luck young lady you're a success story not many autistic adults are achievers due to the seriousness of the condition. In severe cases autistic People stay away from social circles their family's have to keep them safe

Would things like not standing high pitch sounds, or loud sounds of any sort, such as laughter (specially children's laughter and crying), whistling, improv jazz, not knowing which sound to "follow", among many, at any given time, or needing to identify where they come from, being able to "hear" barometric pressure changes and getting sick from them, (pulsating headache or vomiting) be qualified as auditory sensory overload? Can having problems with lots of things moving around in unpredictable manners, (people in a crowd, but, most concerning, cars in a multilane highway- not being able to trust or anticipate what the ones behind will do, or struggling with the intense moving lights at night coming from all directions, be considered visual overload? Is being exhausted after driving 60 km or one hour in such conditions a tell-tale sign of such overload? Is having to sit in a particular place in a restaurant, with the back or the side against the wall or corner, facing the window, in order to be able to relax, not being able to go to public swimming pools with children moving in all directions, sensory overload? And can sensory overload be a symptom in other pathologies that are not autism? Asking about a friend of a friend, of course.

If you plan on being employed in the NT world, especially sales, then you better learn NT "language", otherwise be a peaceful hermit. 7 decades being Autistic taught me that my assessment of situations in tight stressful extreme circumstances (many were mine) was usually the most cool rational life saving judgements! We Autistics were bred long ago in distant places as warrior tradesmen, where rational focused unemotionally applied mentality served a real world function, lost today sadly as society baby sits us into a shunned minimized obscurity. Artificial intelligence made man extinct when the industrial revolution started killing crafts trades and warrior ethic. Look about you, see robotic poor excuses for humans filling their useless time having social "fun".

Hello young lady I hope you achieve goals in your life i.e. jobs or qualifications you deserve to be happy during your lifetime. I'm very proud of you one final point I hope you fall in love and get married and have children that will be the icing on the cake. Xxx xxx.

Why try to be human. Be yourself.

Are Aspies attracted to others of the opposite sex? Do they get on better in a relationship than the others who do not have Asperger's?

We don't have many books by women on the Autism Spectrum.

Whose idea was it to use stools like those? don't you have more comfortable chairs that can allow you to also face each other? or was that the point of the stools?

um is it just me or that girl really looks like tobey maguire

A young adult family member has not wanted to accept the word autism. So they are not yet in therapy..they are a big " sink into the wall " kind of person. You and others that I see articulate and speak more confidently. Did you have to work on that for awhile to get to where you are? I have hope that they will develop more confidence now that they are willing to go through testing and support.

Semd ,me $ first. I am only a ....who protecting myself and any ... autistic people ☭

10,000 hours for a neuro-typcal. Anybody care to comment how many hours for a neuro-diverse ?

I have pdd nos