Question: What inspired you to study autism?

Amy Pearson answered on 11 Jun 2018:

My younger brother is autistic (hes 27) and had a lot of problems when he was in school with people not understanding why he acted the way he did. I wanted to understand why he was so good at some things (hes really creative and amazing at music) and not so good at others (he sometimes takes things people say very literally and gets very stressed when in busy or loud places). He inspired me to learn more about autism, and to study for my Doctorate in autism research.