The Autistic Surfer

andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

29 points·robg··11 comments

Unrelated to the article, but if anyone likes snowboarding, skating, or just being in the water, I highly recommend taking a surfing lesson. Figuring out the mechanics and actually catching a wave are exhilarating! I'm tempted to somehow relate it to hacking, but I won't even go there.

Surfing is hacking mother nature's laws of fluid dynamics and gravity ;-)

http://www.fisica.net/ondulatoria/surf_physics.pdf

upvoted for not going there :)

With all this positive press that Asperger's Syndrome has gotten lately I almost wish I had it.

Clay's surfing is simply incredible. For a more visual example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZbUuwM4_w

> If Clay isn’t surfing (...) then he’s probably watching > slow-motion videos of himself, which he’s been known to > study for ten hours straight.

since i saw the first autism movie (monk ?), i had a thought that autistic people seem to be a perfectionist (a road to a professionalism)

i never saw or meet autistic people in a real life. so, the article seems convince me.

It's awesome to spend time out in the water almost everyday completely disconnected. I love surfing.

We should organize HN surfing trips :-)

That way, when we were not in the water, we could about interesting tech stuff...

I tend to have outdoor hobbies, and I'd just love to organize HN hiking, camping, climbing, surfing, etc trips. Geeking out while being outdoors and far from technology sounds like a beautiful way to spend time.

That'd be great. I'm in Australia (near Sydney). Keen to hear from anyone interested in doing something like this.

I thought this was going to be an article about how people with autism browse the web.

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