Steve Silberman
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584 appearances
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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So it was what took me five years, really, was trying to come up with a book that would speak to all of those groups.
Now, within the autistic community specifically,
As I say, the vast majority of the feedback has been tremendously positive.
There is a small but loud minority of autistic people, and I mean really small but sometimes really loud, who think I shouldn't have written the book because I'm not autistic myself.
I'm neurotypical.
And I think they have a valid point.
You know, imagine if a guy came along and said, I'm going to write the definitive history of feminism.
You know, white guy wrote, you know, the big book on the civil rights movement.
And I'm gay, you know.
And so if I heard, oh, there's this new book that everyone's reading about gayness that was written by a straight guy, I'd be like, really?
I mean, I wouldn't dismiss it, you know.
But in any case, I can't help that.
I was born this way.
I can't change.
I came to autism because I was a very well-established science writer at WIRED.
So I did not come to autism through a personal or family connection.
And one thing that I think is really interesting is that one of the most frequent reactions that I get from everyone pretty much is,
When I tell them I wrote a book about autism, they say, oh, do you have a child on the spectrum?
And I don't.
And what's weird about that is that if you think about it, I mean, autism is a huge thing.
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