For decades, two figures have dominated the history of autism studies. Today, newly excavated documents are calling into question the primacy of these men as founders of the field.
“It is too difficult for me to constantly switch back and forth between the pictures and the text bubbles,” says the animal behaviorist and advocate for autistic people, whose new book (with Betsy Lerner) is “Visual Thinking.” “I like technical and scientific books with lots of illustrations.”