NPR Fresh Air - Autism and Aspergers

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I'm listening to Fresh Air with Terri Gross and her guest is Steven Silberman.

He is discussing the history of autism and Asperger's. It is very interesting.

I believe the show will be posted for steaming tomorrow (Sept.3, 2015).

http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/

If interested, the streaming interview is posted.
It is called 'NeuroTribes' Examines The History — And Myths — Of The Autism Spectrum

NeuroTribes is the name of Steven Silberman's book.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/02/436742377/neurotribes-examines-the-history-and-myths-of-the-autism-spectrum

In 1938, an Austrian pediatrician named Hans Asperger gave the first public talk on autism in history. Asperger was speaking to an audience of Nazis, and he feared that his patients — children who fell onto what we now call the autism spectrum — were in danger of being sent to Nazi extermination camps. ...