Donald Mcneil

“Hearing this, I was reminded of Hajo’s comment the previous summer. “People like David Irving do not throw firebombs. They throw the words that can cause others to throw those firebombs.”
― Deborah E. Lipstadt, Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

“The story of autism is actually many stores, set on different continents, and overlapping in time, and circling back on one another…Ideas cross-pollinate, major players make cameos in one another’s stories, and entire story lines unfold at different paces thousands of miles apart…And yet, as much as the story zigzags or circles back, there is an unmistakable forward movement. Over time, because of the efforts made by parents and activists…public attitudes toward people given the autism label have moved in what all would agree is the right direction. The cruelty and neglect that have marked the history of autism now seem antiquated. More and more, a new impulse has taken hold, the impulse to recognize the different among us as part of us, and to root for their full participation in the world. That project, of course, is still a work in progress. But it puts us all in the middle of the story, right now.”
― John Donvan and Caren Zucker