6/24/2023 0 Comments Neurotribes book![]() The book has multiple mini-biographies in it, used to illustrate the lives of the afflicted, their parents and siblings, and the psychologists who have both massively messed these folks up for a few centuries, and who have taken years and years to see those afflicted with these conditions as beings worthy of respect. It becomes obvious from reading this book that some of our most respected and effective scientists and engineers exist on the autism/Asperger's spectrum. This book is extremely well-researched and dense with detail about the history of the "treatment" of autism and Asperger's Syndrome. It's only recently (this century!) that autism and neurodiversity have been recognized as truly unique conditions that are outside of the schizophrenia diagnoses that children with autism would receive during and before the 20th century. ![]() This long book takes the reader through the unfortunate history of autism - how western society and psychiatry have failed neurodiverse people since the 1800s. Neurodiversity is commonly known as:īoth exist on a wide spectrum of symptoms, capabilities, and outcomes. ![]() ![]() I've been working my way through the book I've never spent much time learning and thinking about neurodiversity - until this year. ![]()
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