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Author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller. The Taste of Salt, a history of cystic fibrosis, coming 2023.

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Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Nov 2019

    So honored to see Terry Gross' 2015 interview with me on included in 's new searchable archive of the best of 40 years of Gross' interviews. She is the reigning master of the author interview.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    What "medical freedom" looks like in practice.

    If anyone knows of an ICU bed for a C19+ patient who is in central Texas & in desperate need of dialysis please reply or DM contact info for the bed location & I'll pass along to pt's dr. Has tried 60+ hospitals already. Please amplify thx
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  3. 5 hours ago

    Beautiful piece by playwright on feeling "a cosmic sense of solidarity" watching his play "Light Switch" performed by .

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    12 hours ago

    Velvet-voiced singer Johnny Hartman died 38 years ago yesterday. If you've never heard his duet album with John , you have stuff to discover about both Hartman and Coltrane.

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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 15

    when losing in a landslide makes you a “star”

    Larry Elder became a Republican star while running to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California. Where does he go from here?
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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 3

    This is urgent. Luke is 16 and autistic. He's in Kenya. His mother is dying. He has high support needs. Money is the first thing needed for taking care of him when she dies. But he needs to be adopted. We don't see any way that he will be well cared for if he is not adopted.

    RT until Someone adopts Luke who will love him like his Mom does A Mother's Dying Wish: Terminally Ill Mom Seeks Adoption for Her 16-Year-Old Son
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    9 hours ago

    Sorry to say that bassist George Mraz died today in Prague. He played brilliantly with everyone from Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz to John Abercrombie and Richard Beirach. Thanks for all the beauty.

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  8. 7 hours ago

    tweet of the day

    A Jackie Chan fight scene where he’s in an Ikea warehouse and he fights off dudes with furniture pieces, but by the end he’s accidentally assembled it all into a complete Malm bedroom set
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  9. 9 hours ago

    Sorry to say that bassist George Mraz died today in Prague. He played brilliantly with everyone from Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz to John Abercrombie and Richard Beirach. Thanks for all the beauty.

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  10. 10 hours ago

    A cute rarity for "singers, pickers, and strummers." (Don't quibble @ me about the tablature - if that's what it's even called! I am a musical ignoramus.)

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    10 hours ago

    This is great news for the Pacific Northwest, especially in areas currently suffering from fire weather. That atmospheric river you see is an extremely efficient conveyor belt of moisture.

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  12. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    they should just do the ticketing with the DNA in hair follicles & then we can get back to the original usage of "scalping."

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    16 hours ago

    Q: Is : A) A news organization B) A club of freaked-out white-knuckling sociopaths whose skulls are about to explode in a blast of flesh and bone-shards a la Cronenberg's "Scanners" because they're so full of pathological, uncontrolled rage and GOP cult worship?

    1:44
    BREAKING: A Newsmax anchor just blew up and angrily cut off an American veteran who is helping to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies for pointing out that Trump is responsible for much of the problem. (h/t )
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  14. 12 hours ago

    Velvet-voiced singer Johnny Hartman died 38 years ago yesterday. If you've never heard his duet album with John , you have stuff to discover about both Hartman and Coltrane.

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    12 hours ago

    "If you're healthy you don't have to worry." isn't comforting to me because I have a suppressed immune system. I do have to worry. That's why I'm worried. Should be simple to understand.

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  16. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Calling Neurodivergent artists/producers/makers - I want to talk to you!! Make yourselves known please! DMs are open ✨

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  17. Retweeted
    13 hours ago
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    “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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  18. 13 hours ago

    Congratulations, Republican voters in Idaho! The Death Panels you ordered have arrived.

    Crisis Standards of Care is a last resort. The surge in patients is more than the amount of resources available. Your care will be affected.
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  19. 13 hours ago

    This is one of the most amazing advertisements for anything I've ever seen. Of course it was banned.

    Replying to @stevesilberman
    Reminds me of an ad which was banned in the UK:
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  20. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Tears of admiration.

    A note left on the hospital staff whiteboard by Dr. Kenneth Krell, director of eastern Idaho’s largest intensive care unit.
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  21. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    Florida just reported 1,554 additional deaths due to COVID-19 to the — the largest loss of life reported at once during this pandemic. This tragically brings Florida's death total to 50,811. May God bless and keep the families and friends of those we've lost.

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