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
Lorna Wong wrote about that I think. She considered the myth of the changeling as possibly related to autism
Lorna Wing or Lorna Wong? I’ll have to look it up on google.
Whoops, my bad. Wing.
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.