Heilker and Yerbeau

"In the past two years, corporations such as Barnes & Noble, Toys "R" Us, Lindt chocolates, and Starbucks have publicly promoted the fight against autism"

-I think in the past couple of years people have become more  aware of autism and its discourse. I know at our high school we had a basketball games the promoted autism and raised money for autism. We sold shirts and raised a ton of money and from that I have become more aware about autism. The shirt that we wore had 1 and 110 which means every 110 children born one is autistic. That really shows you that it can affect someone you might know.

"The National Institute of Health defines autism as a "spectrum that encompasses a wide range of behavior" bu t whose "common features include impaired social interactions, impaired verbal and nonverbal communication,  and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior"

- Some people think autistic people cant do anything because they have impaired social interactions, but in reality they can do just as much as we can if they put their mind to it. for example Temple Grandin designed a slaughter house for cows because she realized how bad of a process they went through and her design was successful.

"Understanding autism as a rhertoric brings a certain level of legitimacy to what I might consider my commonplaces-repetitive hand movements, rocking, literal interpretation, brazen honestly, long silence". 

We have to understand that we cant look at autistic people as different human beings although they may display there mannerisms differently than us doesn't mean they should be treated differently. I think the biggest thing about this is just understanding what they go through and understand how they act.

"Talking with Eli was like listening to an old eight track tape player"

Autistic need a different type of help through school you need to very patient with them because they can change topics very quickly. I think the education systems are doing very well with this, at my school there was help from students and teachers and they made a group effort to make sure students could reach their highest potential. I think that is great because they should be treated like everyone else is and it also makes everyone come closer together when we have the same common goals.