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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 13 Nov 2017

    Neil deGrasse Tyson Retweeted Faith Naff  🏳️‍🌈 ♀️

    I suspect as many as 10% of my scientific colleagues fall somewhere on the spectrum. The Universe clearly has room for us allhttps://twitter.com/FaithNaff/status/929758375503679491 …

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    Faith Naff  🏳️‍🌈 ♀️ @FaithNaff
    @neiltyson thank you so much for remaking "Cosmos". My autistic son has watched it all dozens of times now. Thanks to you, his passion is outer space. He's always talking about stars and planets. <3
    7:44 AM - 13 Nov 2017
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      2. Karl‏ @KarlASD34 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        To be honest I didn't think it would be that low.

        2 replies 0 retweets 78 likes
      3. Sue Man‏ @sueman87 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KarlASD34 @neiltyson

        Hope I'm confused by your response. Not all on the spectrum are "low."

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Karl‏ @KarlASD34 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @sueman87 @neiltyson

        I expected the percentage of autistic people to be higher that 10%.

        1 reply 1 retweet 60 likes
      5. Sue Man‏ @sueman87 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KarlASD34 @neiltyson

        : ) Glad to hear that. Too many people have low expectations for those on the spectrum.

        2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
      6. Karl‏ @KarlASD34 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @sueman87 @neiltyson

        I am autistic and I am studying to be a theoretical physicist, and I have noticed that some of my class seem to be on the spectrum. Those that have low expectations of us are simply not educated on what autism actually is.

        2 replies 6 retweets 146 likes
      7. Eric Cintron/E-Money‏ @Emoney_Original 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KarlASD34 @sueman87 @neiltyson

        Neil probably said 10% as a generous low guess. It looks better than saying something that is likely more accurate, and that Neil likely knows to be more accurate, like say idk 20%, which might be a biiiit high but eh, /shrug

        2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      8. Karl‏ @KarlASD34 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Emoney_Original @sueman87 @neiltyson

        Haha.pic.twitter.com/m4P3s5eGKD

        3 replies 6 retweets 95 likes
      9. Eric Cintron/E-Money‏ @Emoney_Original 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KarlASD34 @sueman87 @neiltyson

        There is evidence that some of history's greatest Mathematicians and Scientists were likely on the Spectrum (Newton, Einstein, look it up for-real). Where some parts of the brain are damaged, others are strengthened ;)

        3 replies 3 retweets 31 likes
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      1. Siddhesh Poyarekar‏ @siddhesh_p 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Only 10%? In my field of work (CS, low level programming and math) I struggled to find someone without spectrum traits, myself included.

        2 replies 2 retweets 45 likes
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      2. Ben Lubar‏ @BenLubar 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Autism causes vaccines!

        1 reply 2 retweets 45 likes
      3. Jenny S. Pumpkins‏ @_jenny_tweets 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BenLubar @neiltyson

        I like this. I am going to say this a lot now. Thank you! 😁

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Ben Lubar‏ @BenLubar 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @_jenny_tweets @neiltyson

        .@ZachWeiner gets credit for the joke: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism-and-vaccines … (I'm just a fan.)

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      2. Dan Dzejak‏ @ddzejak 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Yes thank you as well. My autistic son has watched it almost every night before before bed for the past couple years. And he loves to go out and look through my telescope like @neiltyson he tells me. Thank you for what you do.pic.twitter.com/TkkTCleNWQ

        1 reply 3 retweets 36 likes
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      2. AGirlByAnyOtherName‏ @1NerdGirly 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        pic.twitter.com/ie5i4aWjMv

        1 reply 3 retweets 48 likes
      3. r bristow-johnson‏ @rbristowjohnson 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @1NerdGirly @neiltyson

        where did you get that GIF? i would like to use it!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. AGirlByAnyOtherName‏ @1NerdGirly 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @rbristowjohnson @neiltyson

        I typed you're awesome into the gif search bar and scrolled down until I found it 😁 Hope that helps.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. MM GOLF STUDIO 🇺🇸‏ @MMGOLFSTUDIOS 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Don't we all fall somewhere on the spectrum? Isn't that the point of a spectrum?

        9 replies 1 retweet 58 likes
      3. Anthony Perpich‏ @anthonyperpich 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @MMGOLFSTUDIOS @neiltyson

        Agreed

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      5. Fridge freezer lemon squeezer propa geezer‏ @Aminer007 13 Nov 2017
        Replying to @autynaut @anthonyperpich and

        Faer? Gotta be a joke right?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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