I think I found the original Autism diagnosis

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11 Jul 2013, 8:54 pm

Ettina wrote:

Dementia praecox is schizophrenia, not autism.

That is not what I wrote. What I said is that, in the U.S., Autists were, between 1918 and 1980, diagnosed on the schizophrenic spectrum. The fate of Autists was similar in many other Western countries.

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11 Jul 2013, 8:57 pm

Interesting. I suppose it could be stimming (technically, stereotypy).

For posterity, I PDFed that story and put a link on this page (under the Autism Stacks section).

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11 Jul 2013, 10:30 pm

Thanks, I think Bentham is a pretty interesting character, and a good guy, and I welcome seeing this aspect of his personality better publicized.

Please remember, this is a humorous section. The "Panopticon" is Bentham's serious tome on prison reform, and is anything but light and amusing! Again, not entirely sure how to read this whole piece.

And by the way, could you please explain a little what stereotypy is?

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11 Jul 2013, 11:43 pm

AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:

And by the way, could you please explain a little what stereotypy is?

Bentham was an eccentric, but the story is interesting either way.

Stereotypy is the technical name for stimming - like stereotyped behavior (over and over again).

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12 Jul 2013, 3:37 pm

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What I said is that, in the U.S., Autists were, between 1918 and 1980, diagnosed on the schizophrenic spectrum.

I'd argue with the earlier number there. I couldn't find any autistic-sounding childhood schizophrenia cases until the early forties. Before then, it seems we were just considered ret*d. (Although in the 1880s John Langdon Down suggested a syndrome that could vary in presentation between regressive autism, CDD and schizophrenia, but it seems not to have caught on.)

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12 Jul 2013, 4:01 pm

Ettina wrote:

Beginning in 1918, the APA called it dementia praecox. You can download the 1918 manual in several formats (including PDF) on this page:

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