'To start, let’s go back to the early 1970s – when autism was not a new front in the culture wars, but a word not much known beyond academia (unless you’d seen Change Of Habit, a somewhat odd Elvis movie made in 1969).
Reading books on the subject from back then can be a fascinating experience. You find observations and theories that later bloomed into certain knowledge about the autistic spectrum and what it involves. But there is often a depressing, unsettling sense of too many misplaced beliefs and blind-spots that still exist all these years later.'
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