Autism

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned to create mental images."

Tom Cruise

Actor

I was struggling, but stuff like this wasn’t on the agenda when I was at school. Really it was a way of saying, ‘I can’t do this and I don’t know why'.”

Emma Lewell-Buck

Politician

It is so much fun to look at something everyone's looking at to see if a different pattern comes out for you."

Will Smith

Actor

If there were a cure for Asperger’s, I don’t know if I’d want it. Humanity has prospered because of people with autistic traits. Without them, we wouldn’t have put man on the Moon or be running software programs. If we wiped out all the autistic people on the planet, I don’t know how much longer the human race would last."

ChrisPackham

Presenter