![]() ![]() ![]() The authors describe well-known facets of autism such as lack of eye contact, a need for sameness, and so on-but not much more. They present autistic traits as cryptic and strange, with autistic people themselves characterized as walled off in emotionless prisons. ![]() Which means that, unfortunately, In A Different Key becomes a chronological collection of anecdotes about these “heroic” battles.ĭonvan and Zucker also fail to provide balanced, comprehensive information about autism. Anyone fighting autism becomes the book’s sympathetic, underdog David. The role of the villain, Goliath, is played not by a person, but by autism itself. This history is a complex and nuanced one, yet Donvan and Zucker tell a fairly straightforward David and Goliath narrative. In the following decades, readers encounter a variety of researchers and parents as they grapple with questions about the origin and nature of autism. In A Different Key, by John Donvan and Caren Zucker, is described by its publisher as “the definitive history of autism.” Its story begins in the 1930s, with a portrait of “autism’s first child” Donald Triplett, then moves to “father of child psychiatry” Leo Kanner, who was the one to diagnose Triplett with autism. ![]()
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