# 'Agricultural specialisterne': rural employment revolution for those with Autism

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The last two posts have mentioned the nonprofit organisation _Fraser_, Minnesota’s largest and most experienced provider of Autism services.

In 2011, Autism specialists from _Fraser_ offered their expertise to help the director, playwright and actors to accurately portray characters that are on the Autism Spectrum for a theatre production. This was the _Mixed Blood Theatre_’s ‘On the Spectrum’…

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> …Is autism a disability or a difference? This simple but profound question is at the center of a new play …A young man with Asperger’s, passing as “typical” after years of mainstreaming and therapy, connects online with a woman who proudly champions her autism as a difference, not a disorder. This love story between an “aspie” and an “autie” reveals the contradictions between finding success as yourself and on the world’s terms, and the conflict between the desire for acceptance and the desire for achievement…

Here are links to photos from the production:  
[http://mixedbloodtheatre.tumblr.com/tagged/on-the-spectrum](http://mixedbloodtheatre.tumblr.com/tagged/on-the-spectrum)  
[http://tcjewfolk.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/11/OnTheSpectrum-6878.jpeg](http://tcjewfolk.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/11/OnTheSpectrum-6878.jpeg)

(sources: [http://www.fraser.org/Fraser/media/Assets/pdfs/newsletters/focus/FraserInFocus\_Dec2011.pdf](http://www.fraser.org/Fraser/media/Assets/pdfs/newsletters/focus/FraserInFocus_Dec2011.pdf); [Autism and romance mix in live-via-Internet ‘On the Spectrum’ - latimes.com](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/11/autism-play-on-internet.html))

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