Episode 34: “NeuroTribes” Edition (audio)

Posted by jnshaumeyer on 21 September 2015

Streamed live on 17 September 2015.

For this fast-paced and wide-ranging discussion our guest was Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes : The Legacy of Autism and the Furute of Neurodiversity.

The history of understanding — and misunderstanding — autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, reaching today’s comprehension of them as a “spectrum”, is over a century long, at times convoluted, and sometimes alarmingly cruel. During the 8 years that he worked on this book, Silberman collected a remarkable number of stories that he tells to remarkably good effect in this comprehensive book. We tried our best to sort our some of those while recounting our reactions to the book, and what we learned from reading it.

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