Steve Jobs and the autism community: Round pegs in square holes

"There is a poster that hangs on the wall of a room in my house. The poster features the face of a young Bob Dylan with a harmonica around his neck. It is a striking image, but over the past few days, that isn't what has drawn my attention.

What has drawn my attention is the small rainbow-striped apple in the top left-hand corner, above the words "Think different."

I tracked down and bought that poster a long time ago. I bought it long before iPods and iPads. I bought it long before the iPhone. I bought it long before I had kids, and I bought it long before I had a child with autism.

Those words and the man behind the company that adopted them as a tagline have gained a lot of importance to me personally in the years between the day I bought that poster and now. Living in a neurodiverse family full of autism, ADHD and undiagnosed quirkiness, all we do is think different.

I tell my kids over and over that everybody's brains work differently and that is a wonderful thing. Steve Jobs and Apple told us the same thing."  Read more:

Steve Jobs and the autism community: Round pegs in square holes