who is your favorite autism advocate/ celebrity

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i know there arent many theres like Temple Grandin and, Carly Fleishman but there might be more im not aware of.

for me, i relate best Temple Grandin, because we both have the same sensory issues and we both like animals and building.

Never heard of Carly Fleishman. Are you counting Alex?

yes and you should look her up, shes 19 and wrote a book with her dad

Not really a celebrity but Jacob Barnett fascinate me.

You can find 42 others on this list: "Books By People With ASDs".

Alex Plank, of course!

Currently Carly Fleischmann and also that person who wrote the book though the eyes of aliens.

Although she's not an advocate nor famous.

Last edited by jenisautistic on 30 Jan 2014, 6:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mine is Carly Fleishmann, another is a long time member of Wrongplanet - KingdomOfRats.

I like Carly. I'd be honored to meet her in person.

My absolute favorite? Alexis Wineman. She's my celebrity crush, and that's despite the fact that's she's spent way too much with Jenny McCarthy and a ton of others who think that autism can be cured, a fact that sort of bugs me a little (you can say that "you can't cure what isn't a disease" and hang out with the drama queen of autism moms). But I'd like to know her actual points of view on autism, if she agrees with them or if she just went along with it. Would I be honored to meet Alexis? Regardless, yes!

Given the chance to have lunch with her or President Obama, I'd take her, no offense to POTUS.

A close second is John Elder Robsion, with a third being Jerry Newport.

Then again, I heard on The Middle tonight this little tidbit: "Don't meet your heroes." There might be a point to this.

Temple Grandin, John Elder Robison and Amanda Baggs.

Pope Benedict XVI.

I like many of them - Temple Grandin (got to meet her at a conference once ) Donna Williams, Sean Barron, Liane Holliday Willey, Rudy Simone, Carly Fleischman, Jennifer McIlwee Meyers, John Elder Robison, Maja Toudal, Amanda Baggs, KingdomOfRats, and of course, Alex Plank.

me too, me too!

KingdomOfRats...never met him. Alex is significant in his own right (WP has 80,000+ members: that's bigger than the population of some cities!). And JER is one of the coolest people you'll ever meet.



I don't think a lot of our American friends know who Carly is because she's from...ta-dah! Toronto, the 905! (I don't know where in Toronto Carly lives, and if I did, that'd be weird).

Amanda Baggs, because she thinks all autistics deserve acceptance.

Alex, because this forum changed my life.