Neurotribe or Diatribe
My previous two blogs dealt with some of the historical misinterpretations in the popular book Neurotribes. My good friend Olga Bogdashina commented that it would be a good idea to […]
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Steve Silberman’s Phony History of Autism Dealt Another Blow
By Jill Escher When Steve Silberman’s grandiose fabrication of the history of autism, NeuroTribes, was published in 2015 I was stunned that anyone would take the book seriously. As explained […]
Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia
A few decades ago, after graduating from medical school, I learned that autism was considered to be a rare disorder. Textbooks would report a prevalence of 1 in 10,000 individuals. […]
Foster Care and Autism
Foster care is a temporary placement within the United States for children who cannot live with their families. In a policy article on Spectrum (https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/many-children-autism-end-foster-care/) it was reported that children […]
Autism in History
The term autism was first introduced in 1908 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939) to describe an atypical behavior observed in some schizophrenic patients. The etymology of the term […]
Realizing that Diagnoses Are Not Reality
Claudia Mazzucco is a journalist and author from Argentina. She is acknowledged as having made a decisive contribution to the History of Golf in Argentina by her researching on its […]
The Horrifying History of Hans Asperger
Jill Escher is an autism research philanthropist, president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, autism housing provider, and mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Several of […]
Six Things to Love About “Autism Uncensored”
Jill Escher is the mother of two children with nonverbal autism, a provider of low-income housing for adults with developmental disabilities, and president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, […]
Leo Kanner and Autism: A 75 Year Perspective
Leo Kanner played a paramount role in defining autism as a medical condition and in changing societal views towards people with disabilities. He used his academic position at Johns Hopkins […]
The Historical Underpinnings of Neurodiversity: Part II
The following paragraphs were written for an editorial published by the Siberian Journal of Special Education in the early part of 2016. I asked the editor of the journal, Elena […]
