Steve Silberman
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584 appearances
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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Society has been enmeshed in controversies about autism for at least 20 years and, in fact, much longer.
Autism is also very common.
Lots of people are on the spectrum.
So why wouldn't a science writer write about it?
And I think the reason that people ask me that is because of a sort of holdover belief that autism is rare.
And so that you wouldn't write about it unless you, in a sense, were forced to by your fate.
And I wrote about it by choice because I thought that families and autistic people were suffering much more than they should.
So in terms of me being neurotypical, yes, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
But I hope that in both my books and my talks that I have tried to be as good an ally to the autism rights movement as I could.
And I often, when people ask me to do talks or whatever, I often say, well, could we do a panel where I talk to autistic self-advocates?
And I try to, you know, in a sense, deflect the spotlight onto autistic voices as much as I can.
Yeah.
And also, I mean, I don't want to dwell on those negative reactions and they have every right to them, but a couple of people have said like, well, an autistic person should have written this book.
You know, why, why did this guy do this?
And it's like, I did the historical work.
It's not like I copied stuff, you know, from the neurodiversity movement or the autism rights movement.
It's true that the last part of the book is about the autism rights movement and
But it's not like the whole book, you know, was just laying out there on people's blogs, you know, waiting for me to come along and scoop it up.
You know, I had to do unbelievable, obsessive, dare I say, even autistic like deep dives into historical archives.
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