Steve Silberman
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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And autistic people were definitely one of the groups that I was trying to write for.
I actually had three groups in mind when I was writing the book.
One was autistic people themselves.
One was parents, particularly parents who were sort of on the fence about vaccines and whether or not there was an autism epidemic.
And the other was clinicians and researchers.
Because I knew that even people who had been in the field for 40 or 50 years did not know the details of, for instance, how Hans Asperger ran this clinic in the midst of a country that was being taken over by the Nazis.
And without getting into contemporary politics too much, let's just say that I had no idea that the Nazi passages existed.
in my book would become so relevant virtually overnight.
Again, that's a frightening thing.
But in any case, what was hard was that if you think about it, those three groups all have very different agendas.
You know, the clinicians and researchers are interested in improving their medical understanding of autism, you know, but that can lead to stuff like words like risk and, you know,
Causation theories and whatnot.
Parents want to build a better world for their children and just want their kids to be happy and have good lives.
But that doesn't always mean that they are always in line with what autistic self-advocates want.
And autistic self-advocates and neurodiversity activists can sometimes be very angry at parents because they see parents as trying to speak for them
you know, with groups like Autism Speaks.
So it wasn't just that there were three groups with three very different agendas.
You know, the dark secret is that they were all kind of at each other's throats in a way.
Like, you know, the autistic self-advocates
really didn't trust the researchers and clinicians because they were aware of this long history of abuse and bogus theories and all that.
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