Neurotribes: The Legacy Of Autism And The Futur... File

The narrative begins by contrasting the work of two researchers in the 1940s who discovered autism almost simultaneously, but defined it in vastly different ways:

Conversely, Kanner defined autism as a rare, severe childhood psychosis. He shifted the focus toward deficits and famously (and incorrectly) blamed "refrigerator mothers"—parents who were supposedly too cold or distant—for their children's condition. The Suppressed History NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Futur...

The story of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman is a sweeping historical narrative that reframes autism from a modern "epidemic" to a longstanding, natural variation in the human genome. The Two Pioneers The narrative begins by contrasting the work of