Research confirms that seeing the world in ‘a different way’ sparks unique ideas
(The Guardian) - A new study suggests that people with autism display higher
levels of creativity and imagination. In the study,
people with autism were far more likely to come up with unique and novel answers to
creative problems despite having traits that are typically considered to be
socially and occupationally crippling.
Co-author of the study, Dr. Catherine Best, speculated that
these findings ‘may be because they are approaching things very
differently. It goes a way towards
explaining how some people with what is often characterized as a disability
exhibit superior creative talents in some domains’.
‘There are many misconceptions and myths about autism,’ said
Jolanta Lasota, chief executive of the charity Ambitious about Autism, ‘the biggest
one including being antisocial and having a lack of empathy. However, what
people with autism struggle with is fitting their feelings of sympathy and
caring into everyday interactions’.
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