I just read this article and thought it might be nice to post with the latest blog posts about autism.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/autistic-boy-genius-iq-higher-einstein-article-1.1340923

Boy genius diagnosed with autism has IQ higher than Einstein
Kristine Barnett noticed that her little boy Jacob - whom doctors had tagged as autistic - seemed to have a fascination with patterns. So she took him out of his school's special ed program and let him study the things he's passionate about. Now Jacob is on his way to winning a Nobel Prize.