Name: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
ISBN: 9781583334676

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A history of autism, from the doctors who first described it in the 1940s to the movement for neurodiversity. Steve Silberman shows how a narrow and frightening idea of autism took hold, what was lost when the work of Hans Asperger and others was forgotten, and why the rise in diagnoses reflects changing definitions rather than an epidemic.

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