Square Pegs Don’t Roll off Tables: A Photo Essay on the World Due to Autism

 

The first kidney transplant, due to John Hartwell Harrison going to the University of Virginia, started by Thomas Jefferson.
 

 

The plasma screen TV, due to the knowledge of electrons that interfere with a television’s reception, first discovered by Albert Einstein.

 

Gandhi’s non-violent civil disobedience, due to Henry David Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience.  Plus a film with the charming BenKingsley.
 

 

Free-range beef, thanks to Temple Grandin’s improvements in the slaughterhouse.
 

 

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, because of Nikola Tesla’s invention of the Tesla Coil.
 

 

Chaco Canyon National Historic Park, thanks to the archaeological research done to promote and save this site made possible by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
 

 

A happy couple about to wed, due to reforms inspired by Gandhi’s method of non-violent resistance, which in turn was inspired by Thoreau’s essay.
 

 

A child and mother happy together because of Michelle Dawson who made dramatic improvements to Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA).
 

Are individuals and families affected by autism?  Yes, they are affected with great boons to human society in arts, literature, science, and health.  Without autism, ask yourself Where would this world be?  Would I want to live there?