Jim Sinclair. In addition to being on the spectrum, he was born with the physical characteristics of both genders (hermaphrodite).…
TEMPLE GRANDIN (1947 - ). In 1989, she spoke at a conference of autism professionals and educators about “high-functioning individuals with…
A strategic series of revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders, prompted by Lorna Wing and her…
KIM PEEK Kim Peek had been born with cranial Bones that had failed to fuse properly in the womb, so…
BRITAIN Britain passed the Mental Health Act in 1959 in response to a series of scandals about overcrowding and inhumane…
BERNARD RIMLAND An obsessively curious Navy psychologist named Bernard Rimland wrote a book called Infantile Autism. With an autistic child,…
JOHN MCCARTHY The modern digital age began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1950s, where…
The curious fascination that many autistic people have for quantifiable data, highly organized systems, and complex machines runs like a…
HUGO GERNSBACK (1884-1967) The son of a wine merchant in Luxembourg, he became fascinated with electricity. At a young age,…
Autism was first discovered in 1943 by a child psychiatrist named Leo Kanner from Baltimore, who had 11 unusual patients…