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Autism and Us: Old as Time

A Social History of Autism
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Autism is old and unruly. It's been a part of us since we first left handprints on cave walls 40,000 year--s ago. Autism and Us: Old as Time covers a long-stretch view of its neurological history and how society has judged it. With quotes from old medical records, folk-tale beliefs, and Victorian literature, the book conjures up the 19th century- mix of ignorance, cruelty, fumbling knowledge, and surprising love that led to the first medical recognition of autism as a social disorder. From that medically significant recognition has grown our present day neurological and cognitive understanding.
Eustacia Cutler, Temple Grandin's mother, earned a B.A. from Harvard, was a band singer at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, performed and composed for New York cabaret, and wrote school lessons for major TV networks. Her research on autism and other disabilities created the scripts for two WGBH television documentaries: The Disquieted and The Innocents, a prize-winning first. Her 2006 book, A Thorn in My Pocket, describes raising her daughter, Temple Grandin, in the conservative world of the 1950s when autistic children were routinely diagnosed as infant schizophrenics. Today Cutler lectures nationally and internationally on autism and its relation to the rapidly emerging bio-neurological study of brain plasticity. She discusses what causes rigid behavior in autism, the toll it takes on the family, and how current research into the neural nature of consciousness is pointing toward insightful possibilities of change. She lives in New York.
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2: The Nature of Autism Chapter 3: The Nature of Our Response Chapter 4: Man, The Chapter 5: The Bed of Hot Coals Chapter 6: Autism in Victorian Literature Chapter 7: Medical Progress Meets the Concert Stage Late 19th Century Chapter 8: World War II Chapter 9: Autism and the Minefield of Blame 1940-1950 Chapter 10: Honor and Shame in the 1960's Chapter 11: Anxiety and Change in the 1970's Chapter 12: The Asperger's Story 1980's - 1990's Chapter 13: The Mirror Neuron Story 1990's - 2018 Chapter 14: Putting It All Together and Acting On It
Cutler gives a unique perspective on the past century of growth in our understanding of the condition" - Autism Eye
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