Courtney love 

Dylan Ross

https://youtu.be/M2DRPEbujrg 

Rapper who claims his autism aids him in his experimental music

Mark

 (my friend mark has Aspergers also. I am interested in his perspective on autism as he leads a pretty interesting life- a professional wrestler with a goth/demon persona. He also has a unique look on his identity and how he sees himself in the world, he is trans and also has bpd, and I’m curious if autism has affected those other aspects of himself, what it was like growing up and figuring out who he is and how other people are. Also there is a massive overlap between autism and bpd and autism and queer identity which is rarely discussed. So I think Mark’s story is important.)

Striborg
Black metal musician living in isolation to focus on his craft. Like Courtney and Dylan, as a teenager I really connected with the themes and ideas in his work and thought he could be autistic. I recently found out through social media that he has recently been diagnosed, I was right! I find his perspective on humanity, society and his decision to essentially opt out of society very interesting. He discusses his lifestyle in relation to his work in the documentary series below, but I am more interested in how autism made him to be the person he is today.
https://youtu.be/UQl6PzXU4cQ

Autism gene and link w schizophrenia- could be cool to interview someone with both these conditions 

The new knowledge on the basic principles regulating the shape of the neocortex will also help the design of in vitro brain culture systems that more accurately reflect the developmental processes of interest and improve the prospects for neurological drug development.- poses question of genetic engineering and autism- can be linked to neurolink

https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/theory-of-mind-in-autism-a-research-field-reborn/ autism and theory of mind- autism inst a lack of social interest but a difference in social understanding 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620958010 

“Aligned with progressive theoretical frameworks, emerging empirical research indicates that mismatches in communication styles can contribute to autistic social difficulties and the important role that nonautistic difficulties play.”

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635690/full self advocacy in autism changes our perspective on it as a “disability” to a “difference”