Steve Silberman
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584 appearances
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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I think of it as a living fact, like biodiversity.
And we can pathologize it endlessly and say that all these variations are diseases or syndromes or whatever, which was the approach for most of the 20th century.
Or we can celebrate that diversity as a gift to our society that requires us to be responsible and to provide people with whatever they need to achieve success in whatever form their success would be.
Oh, I love Vondelpark.
I love it.
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Oh, I know.
And I tell you, this is something that I think I left out of the book, but it was very interesting.
There's a group in America called Autism Speaks.
And they were basically the biggest game in town for autism fundraising and, you know, charity walks and all that for a long time because their founders were very, very well connected in both Hollywood and media and government.
And I remember that when the CDC revised up its estimate of autism prevalence several years ago while I was writing the book, they had a teleconference called
And the head of the CDC, this guy Thomas Frieden, you know, said, well, you know, we're up revising our estimate, but it doesn't mean that there's been a true increase in the incidence of autism.
You know, we're thinking that it's probably because of better community awareness.
And the president of Autism Speaks at that time came out to the microphone and read from a Merriam-Webster dictionary the definition of the word epidemic.
And he said, autism is now officially an epidemic in the United States.
Nobody else on the panel had said anything like that.
In fact, they had said the opposite.
And so finally, I found out that the person who told them to go out there was the former chief science officer of Autism Speaks.
And I won't say her name because I'm not here to humiliate anyone.
But I ended up interviewing her.
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