NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman

basic time line of autism history, learning the story of how this baffling condition was first discovered in 1943 by a child psychiatrist named Leo Kanner,

Kanner named their condition autism—from the Greek word for self, autos—because they seemed happiest in isolation.

epigenetics, the science of factors that mediate interactions between genes and the environment.

neurodiversity: the notion that conditions like autism, dyslexia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be regarded as naturally occurring cognitive variations with distinctive strengths that have contributed to the evolution of technology and culture rather than mere checklists of deficits and dysfunctions.