Steve Silberman, a loved and loving neophyte of the late great Oliver Sacks, was a writer for favourite nerd techie magazine ‘Wired’, and his coverage of autism at first was not that positive or well-received as he stumbled into it all haphazardly, inspecting mainly the manifestation of autism in Silicon Valley.īut the subject had an uncanny way of repeatedly cropping up for Steve, and before long he set out to exhaustively study the subject from his non-autistic perspective using his considerable research skills, his amazing background, and many accesses to information not touched on before. 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.

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