5/20/2023 0 Comments Neuro tribes book![]() ![]() Contemporary characters, including Temple Grandin, Jim Sinclair and Leo Rosa, are painted on smaller canvases. Henry Cavendish, Hugo Gernsback (née: Gernsbacher), Hans Asperger, Leo Kanner, Bruno Bettelheim, Bernard Rimland and Lorna Wing each receive chapter-length portraits. Writing in the style of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Silberman paints beautiful biographical portraits through prose. Silberman’s new book, “Neurotribes ,” recounts his quest to understand, as the book’s subtitle states, “the legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity.”Unraveling the legacy consumes the lion’s share of the book’s 500 pages. ![]() Assuming the prevalence of autism was low, Silberman thought he had stumbled onto cause and effect. Months later, he learned that the sister of one of Silicon Valley’s most famous entrepreneurs also has an autistic child. ![]() While writing for Wired magazine, he learned that one of Silicon Valley’s most famous coders has an autistic child. Autism research - and science in general - is constantly evolving, so older articles may contain information or theories that have been reevaluated since their original publication date.įifteen years ago, Steve Silberman was hot on the investigative trail of a “mysterious rise” in autism diagnoses in California’s Silicon Valley. This article is more than five years old. ![]()
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