The Profundity Of An Autistic Second Grader

I have been off the desk a few days traveling.  Spent yesterday at a center for children with learning disabilities.  What an incredible and enlightening experience.

My oldest daughter, a psychology graduate, who is now a behavioral therapist working with autistic children always exhorts me not to stereotype these kids as gifted, savants, you know, kind of like Rainman.

It’s hard for me not to, however, as my middle daughter had a good friend in grammar school with medium to severe autism.  She always won the school spelling bee — second to here was not even close — and went on and did very well in at higher level competition.   Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, one example.

Then there is this.

Take a few moments to stare at the above test and think about it, folks.  Who’s the genius?

Wonder how this kid would interpret the current market conditions?   I’d bet on him/her over the perpetual cheerleading, buy the French dip, lemming market pundits and parrots.   Any day and every day.

Always looking for new, alternative, and rigorous analysis and perspective.