Autisum 
       The average human processes 13 to 30 cycles of brain wave energy per second in their conscious state.
A child with autism can process up to 250,000 cycles of brain wave energy per second in their conscious state.
Some people on the autism spectrum are overly smart and show it in their own special way.  Some of the famous people with autism or autistic characteristics are Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Beethoven , Van Gogh, Mozart, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Edison.  Temple Grandin is another well known person with autism.  The movie about her life won 7 emmy awards on Sunday, August 29,2010.   
       Dr. Grandin didn't talk until she was three and a half years old, communicating her frustration instead by screaming, peeping and humming.  In 1950, she was diagnosed with autism and her parents were told she should be institutionalized.  She tells her story of "groping her way from the far side of darkness" in her book
Emergence: Labeled Autistic, a book which stunned the world because, until its publication, most professionals and parents assumed that an autism diagnosis was virtually a death sentence to achievement or productivity in life.
       Even though she was considered weird in her young school years, she eventually found a mentor who recognized her interests and abilities.  Dr. Grandin later developed her talents into a successful career as a livestock-handling  equipment designer, one of very few in the world.  She has now designed the facilities in which half the cattle in the United States are handled.  She consults for firms such as Burger King, McDonald's, Swift and others.
       Dr. Grandin presently works as a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.  She also speaks around the world on both autism and cattle handling.  At every Future Horizons conference on autism her presentations rate a 10+.  Other books she has written are The Way I see it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's,  Unwritten Rules of Social Relationsips, Thinking in Pictures, Animals Make Us Human and others.  All books and DVD's are available through Future Horizons.