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In September, Dan Harmon gave the keynote address at the XOXO Festival in Portland. Harmon was recently fired as producer of Community, a show that he created and that features favorite TV autistic Abed Nadir. Harmon makes reference to his own place on the spectrum in this way:
I'm sure 20% of you have Aspergers. You're my people.
It's worth watching in part because Harmon takes advantage of his geeky audience to engage in extremely autistic humor (lots of jokes about definitions and numbers) and in part for his message, which is that people are more important than the technologies we use to connect ourselves to each other. And that is both an extremely autistic point and the exact opposite of what one might expect an autistic guy like Harmon to say.