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The forgotten history of autism

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June 20, 2015

Steve Silberman: The forgotten history of autism

13:48 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Jun 2015 · TED2015

One in every 68 people is on the autism spectrum -- a condition that, even just a few decades ago, was rarely diagnosed. To understand the history of autism, says writer Steve Silberman, we have to go back even further, to an Austrian doctor by the name of Hans Asperger, who published a pioneering paper in 1944 on the "little professors" he was working with. Asperger's paper was buried by war and time -- and much crueler theories of autism prevailed. Follow Silberman's journey as he uncovers the lost history of autism. (This talk was part of a TED2015 session curated by Pop-Up Magazine; @popupmag.)

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For most of the 20th century, clinicians told one story about what autism is, but that story turned out to be wrong, and the consequences of it are having a devastating impact on global public health. There was a second, more accurate story of autism which had been lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the clinical literature. This second story tells us everything about how we got here and where we need to go next."

Steve Silberman Steve Silberman
The forgotten history of autism

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