Amanda Baggs, a 26-year old woman living with autism, who has been featured on Anderson Cooper 360 as well as a feature on CNN.com, fielded select questions from over 1,000 e-mails sent to her. She answered questions touching various topics including teaching autistic students, acceptance of autism by society, and how people with autism deal with emotion.

One of the more interesting questions she was asked was the following:

Q: There are three persons with autism in my family. How do you think an island, populated only by autistic persons such as yourself, would function?

BAGGS: I don’t know. I don’t think I would want to live on an island with people of only one neurological configuration, no matter what it was.

If you would like to read all of the questions and answers at CNN.com, click here. You can also view Amanda’s video entitled, In My World, as well as read the enitre CNN.com article about Amanda that contains many other good links.

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