“Sacks cast light on the challenges that they face in their day-to-day lives while paying tribute to the ways they bring the strengths of their atypical minds to their work. (Note his original observations on Hans Asperger are already considered out of date - and wrong - in the light of more recent work, and the latest addition of the work corrects this) The below is a short extraact from Steve Silberman NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently ( Link to Amazon here).
also examines the history of autism with a lens emphasis on hearing the stories of autistic people themselves.
A look into the arguments behind the concept of neurodiversity: that autism can be regarded as naturally occurring cognitive variations with strengths that have contributed to culture and technological advances.
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