2) Steve Silberman is an American writer based in San Francisco, California. Silberman is best known as a writer for Wired magazine, where he has been an editor and contributor for 14 years. In 2010, Silberman was awarded the AAAS "Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing." His featured article "The Placebo Problem discussed the impact of placebos on the pharmaceutical industry.
Silberman's 2015 book about autism and neurodiversity was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize. Silberman's Wired article "The Geek Syndrome", which focused on autism in Silicon Valley, has been referenced by many sources and has been described as a culturally significant article for the autism community. Silberman's Twitter account made Time magazine's list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011.
3) The reason why I think we should watch this Ted Talk is because it helps us understand people that have a different condition than we do. Even though according to the Ted Talk, the amounts of autisim people that are there is starting to become more and more common, it is still not common enough for everyone in this class to say that they know and have met a child the has autisim. However, we can not be sure if we will encounter a person so different from the way we are, so we must prepare to understand the way they think. It is common that autisim children are very intellegent in a certain area. For example, one child could be extrodinarily brilliant in music while in their condition. This also proves that these types of kids should not be recognized as ¨idiotic¨ but, they should be recognized as geniouses. That is because that is what they think and how they embrase it. These kids are incredible at what natural talent he was born with, and we need to understand that.
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