What is autism?
The truth is startling.
No one has a clue.
There is no pathology, no gene, no biomarkers and little understanding .
It is an intrinsic part of an individual’s personality.
And as such, many maintain is not an ‘impairment of mind’, under the Mental Capacity Act.
And, it was not until recently a mental disorder under the Mental Health Act.
It is a spectrum, we are all on.
Like quantum mechanics, it does not exist, until observed and labelled.
Only 70 years ago, it was merely a Greek word, meaning, ‘absorbed in self’.
Associated with loners, high intelligence, gifts, cold mothers, and, the children of academics.
Newton, Mozart and Einstein, who at 7, constantly repeated certain phrases, all showed autistic traits.
On reading Plato’s description of Socrates, he could well have been autistic.
A study by University of Sterling this year shows it is associated…
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