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In a Different Key by John Donvan5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed cold and rejecting “refrigerator mothers” for causing autism and of fathers who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism-by liberating children from dank institutions, campaigning for their right to go to school, challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism, and persuading society to accept those who are different. ![]() Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. ![]() Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionĪn extraordinary narrative history of autism: the riveting story of parents fighting for their children ’s civil rights of doctors struggling to define autism of ingenuity, self-advocacy, and profound social change. ![]()
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