Neurotribes

Autism. It's an ominous label hung around the neck of a young child, a sentence for a life of trouble and difficulty.

But what if it weren't? What if autism was more? What if there were benefits of autism?

That's the idea behind this book, to explore the history of autism and to take a close look at what autism is and is not. Autism isn't something that has suddenly appeared in the last twenty years. Many of our most brilliant scientists probably were on the spectrum. Autism is a spectrum, with many, many shades of autism, in many, many people.

A fascinating study of a fascinating subject.