I interview Steve Silberman about his bestselling book, Neurotribes

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Very impressive read.

Thanks for sending me an email about this article, Alex. I enjoyed the article very much. I posted it on my Facebook page because it's so interesting, I think it might help my friends understand more about the issues, I hope it will help a particular friend see what I am trying to say when I tell her that understanding, patience, and respect is better than "prevent and cure," and I think it will encourage a friend who has a young boy with autism. She's doing a fantastic job raising him, and I think this will help her.

Recent interview (this month) with Steve Silberman:

https://autisticuk.org/interview-with-steve-silberman/

"People with autistic traits helped us get to the moon, built a free global amateur radio network that anticipated the Internet, predicted the existence of antimatter, and made us feel the exquisite beauty of Bach — and that’s just a few random examples from one category of neurodivergence that I happened to run across for my book. If you think of how many major cultural advancements have been made by people who were bipolar, schizotypal, or chronically depressed, you start to realize that neurodiversity is not just about the contributions of individual geniuses, but about the whole texture of human culture. How do we treat the people who are working with us, but who may not think like us, on the grand project of advancing human culture? That may be the essential question of the early 21st Century."