{"id":3152,"date":"2015-05-29T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:19:38","slug":"a-true-success-story-of-an-artist-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"A True Success Story Of An Artist With Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Medlock, from Camberley Australia, is a talented university graduate with a Masters Degree in children&#8217;s books illustration. Thirty year old Ryan has high functioning autism. Even though he managed to successfully complete his Masters Degree, he couldn&#8217;t hold down a job in an office with a large group of people. Yet he was not discouraged. An employment agency was happy to hire him as a free lancer to benefit from his remarkable talents as an illustrator. He works on animation brochures and children&#8217;s books. Ryan&#8217;s talent turned into a career that gave him the sense of achievement, independence, and self confidence.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meridian\/update\/2015-05-28\/dream-comes-true-for-artist-with-autism\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.images.itv.com\/image\/file\/676891\/image_update_img.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meridian\/update\/2015-05-28\/dream-comes-true-for-artist-with-autism\/\">Click here<\/a> to see the video.<br \/>\nRyan is not the only example. <a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1558\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Wiltshire<\/a> is another autistic artist who also made his dream come true.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3IMP0fwlCM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At several occasions in this blog I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of building on the child&#8217;s strengths&#8217;. In Ryan&#8217;s case drawing is his strength. Thankfully, he continued to draw and pursued his passion until his dream came true.<\/li>\n<li>Help your child discover and develop her talents and strengths; for they can be the foundations of her success in the future. Your child doesn&#8217;t have to be a doctor or an engineer. Your child should be successful at doing what she is good at.<\/li>\n<li>Take your cues from your child.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2546\" target=\"_blank\">Mikey Allock, A Talented Painter And Pianist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1984\" target=\"_blank\">Build On Strengths, Not On Deficit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2494\" target=\"_blank\">Iris Grace, A 5-Year Old Gifted Painter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Medlock, from Camberley Australia, is a talented university graduate with a Masters Degree in children&#8217;s books illustration. Thirty year old Ryan has high functioning autism. Even though he managed to successfully complete his Masters Degree, he couldn&#8217;t hold down a job in an office with a large group of people. Yet he was not &#8230; <a title=\"A True Success Story Of An Artist With Autism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=3152\" aria-label=\"Read more about A True Success Story Of An Artist With Autism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,4],"tags":[25,23,381,265,281,279,111,280,50,383,31,139],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autism","category-general-advice","category-tips","tag-art","tag-aspergers-syndrome","tag-autism","tag-career","tag-children-books","tag-drawings","tag-early-intervention","tag-illustrations","tag-independence","tag-parenting","tag-social-interaction","tag-talent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}