About Autism

[divalea]

Why it's good to ask questions and do fucking research instead of deciding things are so: did you know there was a school of thought, backed by no research, that children became autistic because their moms didn't take care of them? It's called "refrigerator mom."

Here's some good audio programs from NPR on Autism:

To the Best of Our Knowledge: Autism
http://www.wpr.org/book/030831a.html

(Warning: contains interview (later in program, Grandin is first) with writer of That Novel About Autism, The Curious Case of the Dog in The Night-time.)

Fresh Aire with Temple Grandin
http://www.npr.org/templates/ sto...storyId=4278538

I haven't listened to this yet, at some point Gross will probably ask Grandin about Jazz, but she's generally good with unusual people.

Comments

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Bruno Bettelheim was pushing that nonsense as well.