TED Talks is collection of speeches of people who are discussing different topics that affect the daily life of people. In one of these talks, Faith Jegede talks about her autistic brothers whom she feels are not ordinary but extraordinary because they are different. This is subject matter that hits very close to home for me because I too have brother who is autistic. We share the feeling that to most people are brothers are not normal by societies standards but this does not mean they are any less then other people.
When I look at my brother it is true to say that he is not capable of doing everything that you or I are capable of doing. He often lacks the ability to behave himself is socially normal way, often lost in his own little world disconnected from things going on around him. Even though it might appear that he is not paying attention to conversation happening around him, he is capable of bring up a conversions that happened years ago and even tell you the exact time and date that they occurred on. A feat I couldn't even pretend to do, as I have a hard time remembering what the day it even is.
Faith's TED Talks reminds me that it's not import to focus on being normal or your lack of it. It is far more import to focus on the things that make up extraordinary. So remember we all lack something, but every single person is blessed with so much more that it's not important to focus on what we don't have but rather what we do have.
