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"There is a powerful popular conception of autism as a world of socially awkward, make creative geniuses whose divergent thinking may have driven human progress, but whose idea of small talk at a party might involve a monologue about steam trains."
— Apr 05, 2025 07:00AM
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"It took almost exactly one hundred years before we got to hear about the seminal work of a female psychiatrist writing about autistic females. Since then, clinicians and psychiatric historians have commented on the 'amazing precision and modernity' of Sukhareva's work, claiming that she had actually beaten Kanner to the punch (and possibly been plagiarized by Asperger).
Tale as old as time, but no less infuriating
— Apr 05, 2025 11:29PM
Tale as old as time, but no less infuriating
