Responding to Psychologist Uta Frith: Autism Can’t Be Quantified, and That’s OK
Autism will never fit in the disease model, because it is not a disease; it is part of the human condition. That is the beauty of the spectrum concept.
Uta Frith
On Hans Asperger, the Nazis, and Autism: A Conversation Across Neurologies
Hans Asperger was, most likely, a complicated and conflicted man who recognized the potential of “autistic intelligence” long before anyone else did, but who was willing to go along with his Nazi bosses even when Jewish storefronts were burning in front of his eyes.