Steve Silberman
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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the people really on the front lines of autism, were having to deal with, which didn't really have to do with vaccines or what causes autism or whatever.
But it had to do with a failure of society to support them.
You know, it was like every article you read for that whole decade, practically, even in very deeply reported newspapers like the New York Times, would always say, we don't really know why the number of autism diagnoses, you know, keeps going up.
And I thought, really?
10 years have passed.
We don't really know?
Like, why don't we know this?
And so as a science writer, I took it upon myself
to start going back through autism history to try to figure out where the concerns of the mainstream media, which seemed to be all about vaccines, and the concerns of parents and autistic people, which seemed to be all about accessing services, where those two interests diverged.
And what I discovered in the course of my research was that
the history of autism as it had been sort of repeated over and over again in thousands of textbooks and Wikipedia was incorrect.
And that if you understood the correct timeline of autism's discovery, that it was a lot easier to understand why the estimates of prevalence and number of diagnoses started to soar in the 1990s.
And so my book is basically
the story of how societal attitudes and medical models and disability rights politics changed around autism over the course of 80 years in order to try to answer questions that were literally keeping parents up at night and preventing autistic people from having, you know, as productive and safe and secure lives as they possibly could.
I did the TED Talk about, I guess it was about three years ago.
It was several months before the book came out.
It was sort of a lucky break in a sense that I got asked to do a TED Talk because I had done a presentation
for a sort of a live performance group in san francisco on the woman who invented the icons for the macintosh susan care and the people who saw that liked the presentation and then they were invited to give a series of talks at ted three years ago and so they is they said well you can talk about anything you want and i said well i have this book coming out in a few months you know do you want me to talk about that and the reason why i talked specifically about
a very basic, very simplified explanation of what's explained in much more detail in my book is that I felt like parents had been bombarded by misinformation and controversy and arguments and just
So much anger on every side.
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