# Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [May 10, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245 "2011-05-10T07:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 180
**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/180 "2012-08-25T20:39:41Z")
Dani Bowman has been the subject of my last two posts. At age 14, Dani’s first professional animation project was on the music video ‘The Cave’, a song by the band Arrest My Sister: [The Cave - Arrest My Sister - Official Music Video in HD - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvqw1Pjqq1o&feature=related) The band’s lead singer, Scott Siegel, was himself diagnosed with High Functioning Autism when he was 13-years-old… > [@](#): > > …His father, Michael Siegel, said the diagnosis brought fears for his son’s future, especially about what would happen after high school. > > …A few years after the diagnosis, a teenaged [Scott] told his parents he wanted to pursue music. > “Scott said he wrote a bunch of songs, and I asked him where they were,” Michael Siegel said. “I asked him where they are, and he said in his head.” > That announcement surprised his parents at the time, but since then, he’s attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood and written more than 300 songs. With friends and others he met at the Musicians Institute, he formed Arrest My Sister… (source: [Arrest My Sister plays music to include | siegel, band, people - News - The Orange County Register](http://www.ocregister.com/articles/siegel-249715-band-people.html)) --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245)._