on autism

because it's not old yet. i read the truth about autism when the article was published, but only on saturday did i watch the video it refers to in the opening paragraphs.

and today tahoma posted the following excerpt:

‎"until 1974, psychiatry's bible, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, described being gay as a mental illness. someday, mottron says, we'll look back on today's ideas about autism with the same sense of shame that we now feel when talking about psychology's pre-1974 views on sexuality. 'we want to break the idea that autism should definitely be suppressed,' he says."

then the other wired article popped into mind, inside the battle to define mental illness, that i read when pg and i were on our way back from austria.

now that is a revelation.