By April 1948, when Time ran an article headlined “Frosted Children” (subtitle: “Diaper-Age Schizoids”), it was clear that he wasn’t going to be a stickler about insisting that his syndrome was present at birth. Addressing his colleagues at a conference in Manhattan, Kanner blasted his patients’ parents as cold perfectionists who barely had time to hug their children before rushing off to the lab or the next gallery opening.
