Art and Autism
Kurt Andersen asks what art reveals about autism. Researcher Blythe Corbett guides Kurt through some of the controversial questions surrounding the disorder. A man with autism writes a dark satire about the world of special education. Scientists try to understand the perceptions of autistic people by watching movies with them — and following their eye movements with a laser. And a playwright presents an extreme hypothesis: in our technological, disconnected world, is autism an evolutionary adaptation?
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