Published on 12, July, 2020
I've been doing some reading this morning on the ancient history of Autism and thought I'd share. I'm not sure what I make of all of these reviews but I like the idea that our ancient ancestors would have valued autistic individuals for their specialist knowledge. Feel free to share your thoughts on these articles.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/autism-stone-age-evolution/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/my-life-aspergers/201602/were-the-timekeepers-the-ancient-world-autistic
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470491100900209
Someone used to call me a Changeling many years ago, long before my diagnosis. It was intended as a putdown I think.
It’s really interesting to read the explanations that people came up with for possibly autism, centuries ago.
I’ve got one of Attwood’s books, I’ll have a look in it later to see if there are any references to Wing.
This pdf certainly does go into Wing's theory about the nature of changelings and autism though.
There's a library somewhere where you can download books, someone kindly put a link here to one of Attwood books. There surely has to be something by Wing too. I wish I could remember the name of that library.....
I found the link to the work on this by Lorna Wing, but the link wouldn’t open
I found this instead which may be similar, I’m not sure what I think of it but it’s ‘interesting’ to read:
www.researchgate.net/.../Evidence-for-autism-in-folklore.pdf
No worries I’ll google it and see what I can find out...
Whoops, my bad. Wing.
Lorna Wing or Lorna Wong? I’ll have to look it up on google.
Lorna Wong wrote about that I think. She considered the myth of the changeling as possibly related to autism
Exactly!
How would the NTs get by without us?