Uta Frith's Book

[ancusmitis]

One of the things that lead to me getting diagnosed was, in the first place, Uta Frith's translation of Asperger's original paper becoming available. She also included it in a book with four or five other articles on AS called Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. An article by Lorna Wing might even have been in there (don't remember; there's a copy lying around here somewhere, but damned if I know where). That's the book my mother read and she showed it to the psychiatrist I was seeing at the time, and he referred us to a specialist in another state.

We had to stay in a hotel for a couple of days, but it didn't take much convincing. I remember being checked out by big machines, and while we were there me and my dad drove together into yet another state so we could be the first members of the family to be there.

Got diagnosed with autism up there, and then we came back and our psychiatrist switched it to Aspergers. My mother could most likely tell you the reasoning of either party, but it doesn't matter much nowadays as the two categories are no longer considered functionally distinct.

Anyway, the reason I mention it is because I don't hear much about Uta Frith's book these days. Is that just because it's out of date, or isn't there anyone else who was impacted by it this directly?

 

[unsurewhattoname]

I've seen documentaries by her recently, they're interesting. That's all I really know about her though.

 

[Naturalist]

I've wondered this myself. I can get copies of her books via the academic service at work, but don't see them in stores. But maybe it was always more common in the UK than the US. And the bookstores do tend to gravitate toward the "latest" titles, not necessarily the standard texts.

 

[Aeolienne]

This radio interview may be of interest:
The Life Scientific: Uta Frith