NeuroTribes: The Untold History of Austim and the Potential of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman

rise in diagnoses

As more awareness is brought to the condition more people are diagnosed the fact there has been an increase in this short time period since its inception will be due to awareness rather than a sudden influx of cases.

Some of these children were unable to speak, while others only repeated things they heard said around them or spoke of themselves detachedly in the third person.

Due to them not being focused on people around them they have their language extremely limited due to this being the main source of literary development in children

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

started to snowball in the 1980s and 1990s,