Autism

Wretches & Jabberers follows two men with autism as they go on a global tour to raise awareness about the disorder.  It’s a vivid portrait of their struggles which manages to be bot…

Author David Mitchell has translated a new book by Naoki Higashida, a young author from Japan who writes about living with non-verbal autism.

Boys are supposedly four times more likely to have the condition, but clinicians often miss or overlook symptoms in girls, who are frequently on the less disabling end of the spectrum.

We tend to think of autism as a modern disease — “the unique disorder of our uniquely disordered times,” as author Steve Silberman writes in a new book. But that idea, he says, doesn’t quite square with the facts. The real history of autism is less known and more tragic — both for the people who suffered from the disorder and for the doctor, Hans Asperger, whose pioneering ideas about autism were long neglected.

Some schools are wasting no time at reporting pupils, even very young pupils, to police and filing criminal complaints for classroom infractions. Those pupils reported are overwhelmingly of color, an investigation has found.