Old names for autism/diagnosis? (pre-20th c)

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I remember there was someone who said there was a disorder in the 18th or 19th centuries which was very similar in its' traits to autism. Do you know what it was?

Also, I remember there was a Soviet researcher who also diagnosed something skin to Autism sometimes in 20th C. Anyone remember the person's name (person was apparently female, and ethnically Russian)

You should research the case of Hugh Blair of Borgue (or Borque), who was a Scottish nobleman in the 18th century.

There were some autistic people who were called "idiot savants" before the 20th century.

There was the case of the famous French "wild boy," who was written about by a guy named Itard.

You should Google "pre-20th Century autism." A few cases will reveal themselves.

In the late 19th through early 20th century idiocy Mental deficiency was a broad diagnostic category. Sub categories were imbecility, moron, and feeble_minded which was the highest functioning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeble-minded

Part of what you're asking about does exist.

I have heard about someone who discovered "asperger's" syndrome years before Hans Asperger. It was a Soviet woman scientist ( maybe in the late Twenties?) who described a condition among children that was virtually identical to what Asperger described in Austria years later.

But sorry- don't recall her name.

Folks were talking about it here on WP some years ago.

Grunya Sukhareva (Груня Ефимовна Сухарева) 1926

Ssucharewa G. E. (1926). "Die schizoiden Psychopathien im Kindesalter". Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie 60: 235–261.

Please tell us, if you wouldn't mind, how we could get access to the articles you mentioned.

I'd also be interested in seeing those articles.