Nicole Schuster (born January 14, 1985 in Aachen[1][2]) is a German author and pharmacist. She was particularly active in the media in 2007 and 2008, raising awareness about Asperger syndrome.
She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in November 2005. From then on, she campaigned for awareness about this variant of autism.
Nicole Schuster made her media debut on July 24, 2007, in the ZDF television program “37 Grad” (37 Degrees).[3] On August 13 of the same year, she made her second television appearance on the SWR program “Leute” (People). A month later, Schuster was interviewed in the RBB cultural radio series “Gott und die Welt” (God and the World). Shortly afterward, she was interviewed by Stern magazine, which was published under the title “Und jeden Mittag gibt es Savoy cabbage” (And every lunchtime there’s savoy cabbage) in issue 44 of 2007.
On November 30, 2007, she appeared on the MDR program Unter uns. She also appeared on the SWR program Nachtcafé on March 7, 2008. On August 17, 2008, she made her second radio appearance in an interview on the WDR5 radio program Dok 5 – Das Feature: Der blinde Spiegel: Vom autistischen Weg ein Ich zu sein.[4] Three months later, she appeared on the WDR program Quarks & Co.[5]
In August 2008, she was honored in Cologne with the “International Intellectual Benefits Award” from the Mensa Education and Research Foundation for her efforts to “give autistic people a voice.”
From May 2016 to the end of 2016, she served as chairwoman of the Mensa association in Germany. As a licensed pharmacist, she manages the production of clinical trial medicinal products at a medium-sized pharmaceutical company.
In 2016, she received her doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg with her thesis “A Herb Has Grown Against Fever.”
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https://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/europas-superhirn-gipfel-invasion-der-intelligenzler-a-569413.html citation from this article: Author Nicole Schuster learned this the hard way. “As an autistic and gifted person, I was desperate for a long time, felt rejected as a child and adolescent, and felt like an outsider everywhere.” Her predisposition wasn’t discovered until she was 18, and then she went full throttle: “I have a photographic memory for details and I love writing,” she says. “During my pharmacy studies, I began giving lectures nationwide on giftedness and how to properly deal with highly intelligent children—especially for teachers, because they had done a lot of mistakes with me in the past.”