# Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms

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**Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/159 "2012-06-27T21:53:19Z")

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Hailing from Waxahatchi in Texas, Alexandra (Lexi) is another young artist with Autism with a potentially exciting future in front of her. At just 16 years of age, Alexandra’s ambitions are now realistic, given that the [nonPareil Institute](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/19) is located in her own Dallas, Texas metropolitan area, and video gaming/computer art is a core part of the coursework of the Autism-focused academy…

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> …Diagnosed with autism at the age of 3, (Alexandra/Lexi) has overcome many of her challenges with her creative mind. As a child, Lexi could not draw simple stick figures, but now, she creates computer art and drawings with Microsoft Paint and Photoshop.
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> Lexi’s favorite things to draw are cartoons, animated characters and anthropomorphic. She also uses music to express herself and emotions when doing her art. …Lexi also participated in the first Annual Arts 4 Autism with the Autism Society of Dallas in 2007. Lexi plans on attending nonPareil Institute in Plano, Texas, to continue her hopes and dreams of becoming a game and character designer.

Some of Lexi’s artwork can be viewed via the following link to Kindtree Productions, an Autism website where she markets her art.  
[KindTree Productions - Lexi Sias](http://www.kindtree.org/marketplace/artists/lexi-sias)

(source: [STUDENT ARTISTS and ART STUDENTS, A MARDI GRAS CELEBRATION OF ART. A student art showin Waco Tx. WACO, TX Featured Artists](http://www.mardigrasartwaco.org/featuredartists.html))

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