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neurotribes

  1. HDLSeanWiley

    Neurotribes movie

    Paramount apparently bought the rights to the book so they could make it into a movie with SNL creator Lorne Michaels. The movie is only going to be based on the chapter about the autistic boy that loves green straws. Is that something you'd wanna see?
  2. L

    Neurotribes and Neurodiversity

    Ok. There is a lot of specialized vocabulary in any one group. In the autistic circle, we have stimming and spoons and so on. Some words come from the doctors that have watched over us. Other words come directly from the community. Like, "neurodiversity." This word was made in the autistic...
  3. Ylva

    Interview with Silberman

    Not written by me. http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2015/08/24/neurotribes-steve-silberman-on-a-haunting-history-and-new-hope-for-autistic-people/ …And that's why I'd never trust anything Lovaas said, thought, or came up with. Haven't read the book yet.
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