

The implications have for many decades been huge for parents, professionals, policy makers – but mostly for the harshly impacted lives of autistics themselves. – psychiatry, psychotherapy, disorder, experimentation, awareness. – psychology, difference, diversity, accommodation, acceptanceĪnd the Americans with Dr Leo Kanner quite another way: It is a very meaty read – 544 pages! – consisting of new and exciting documents, crucial overlooked research, clear cases of serious misinformation, and a thrilling peek into how the Europeans with Dr Hans Asperger went one way: Steve Silberman’s autism best-seller is rapidly changing so many people’s thinking in autism and autistic communities simply because it brings together such a wealth of new information to upset and overturn so much of what we all thought as settled about autism and autistics.
