Peter Schmidt (geophysicist)

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Peter Schmidt as the author at his reading in the “Laacher Forum” (Maria Laach, November 2012).

Peter Schmidt (born January 3, 1966 in Peine ) is a German author .

Life

Schmidt lived from 1966 until his Abitur in 1985 at the Groß Ilsede grammar school in Gadenstedt . He moved to Clausthal-Zellerfeld to study geophysics . After graduating in 1990 he became a research assistant at the University of Kiel , where he met with a thesis on the 1,994 volcanoes on earth doctorate . He then worked for two and a half years as a scientist at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials and then switched to the IT industry.

In 2007 he was diagnosed with autism in the form of pronounced Asperger's syndrome . Since giving a lecture at the federal conference of “Autism Germany” in 2008, he has been present with his own lectures and in the media. Bettina Böttinger described him as one of the most impressive guests on her talk show Kölner Treff . By presenting his perceptions as autistic, Schmidt makes the autistic experience understandable. One example is the story of concrete soccer, in which he describes the emotional perception and communication of autistic people as a black and white view of a colored world. Schmidt became the first self-confessed person with autism in a large German corporation. In 2012 his first autobiographical work A Cactus for Valentine's Day was published. The book reached number 19 on the Spiegel bestseller list.

In 2013 and 2014 he published two more books about his life with autism, which together with the first book now form a trilogy. In 2013, the second volume, Der Junge vom Saturn, was published, about his childhood and school days, and in 2014, the third volume, Kein Anschluss among this colleague, in which the author relates his perception of the world of work.

In 2020 he published his first textbook on autism under the title "Out of the ordinary - practical autism studies from someone who should know". After an introduction to the phenomenon of autism based on the effects of autistic perception, he works out, among other things, the basic characteristics of autist-friendly schools and workplaces.

His books see themselves as a plea for the diversity of being: “You only get access to an autistic person if you pick them up from where they are, if above all you never try to make something out of them that they are not and will never be able to be, but allows it to flourish with what it can offer from within. ”The quote shows that this is not a matter of course and that the author was perceived in professional life as both a service provider and a problematic case, depending on the framework conditions: "We don't really know whether you are the capacity or the resistance in the system, Mr. Schmidt!" - "That depends on the frequency , Mr. Professor!"

Peter Schmidt is married. He has a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • A cactus for Valentine's Day - an autistic and love. Patmos, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8436-0211-2 .
  • The boy from Saturn - How an autistic child sees the world. Patmos, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8436-0390-4 .
  • No connection among this colleague - an autistic person at work. Patmos, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8436-0517-5 .
  • The Street Collector - The Incredible Experiences of an Autistic World Traveler. Patmos, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8436-0832-9 .
  • Out of the ordinary - hands-on autism studies from someone who should know. Patmos, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8436-1175-6 .
  • What an autism-friendly school needs. In: Hartmut Sautter et al. (Hrsg.): Children and young people with ASS - New ways through school. Kohlhammer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-021808-6 .
  • Need for consistency, routine and order. In: Georg Theunissen (Ed.): Understanding Autism - Outside and Inside Views. Kohlhammer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-030786-5 .
  • Classification of the hot spots and the density structure of the Hawaiian mantle plume hot spot. Dissertation . Christian Albrechts University, Kiel 1994.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schmidt, and how he sees the world. In: GEO. 3/2010, pp. 98-111.
  2. ↑ Alone among colleagues. In: Brand Eins. 12/2008.
  3. ↑ Peter Schmidt: A cactus for Valentine's Day. An autistic and love. Patmos, 2012, p. 221.
  4. ↑ Andrea Kahlmeier: Bettina Böttinger: I don't need a plank for the quota. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. November 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ Concrete soccer until the fans came. In: Barrier-free - the magazine. September 2012, pp. 40-41.
  6. ↑ With the rain radar to the canteen. In: taz.die daily newspaper. May 25, 2013.
  7. ^ Non-fiction books . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2012 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Autistic Dr. Peter Schmidt publishes textbook on autism In: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung. February 25, 2020.
  9. ↑ Peter Schmidt: The boy from Saturn. How an autistic child sees the world. Patmos, 2013, p. 232.
  10. ↑ Peter Schmidt: No connection among this colleague. An autistic person at work. Patmos, 2014, p. 5.
  11. ↑ On the move in a strange galaxy. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. July 19, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Torment