![]() ![]() Whilst studying Donald, Kanner soon noticed similar traits amongst other children. He loved saying the letters of the alphabet backward. He could recite twenty-five questions and answers from the Presbyterian catechism verbatim. He had memorised the Twenty-Third Psalm (“The Lord is my shepherd…”) by the age of two. Yet for all his developmental problems, Donald also exhibited unusual talents. “He had frequent tantrums, often didn’t respond to his name, found spinning objects endlessly fascinating. She wasn’t studied, unlike a young boy called Donald in the early ’40s. ![]() Temple Grandin (born on 28th August, 1947) showed many of these traits. His pioneering work found a set of similarities children would display, such as not wanting to be with their mother or having extreme aversion to eye contact. Diagnoses date back to 1943 when Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician Leo Kanner (1894-1981) released a paper proposing the condition. Part I takes a look at where we’re at with human understanding of autism. Right, so this work is split into two parts: ![]()
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