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He classified autism as a form of infantile psychosis caused by cold and unaffectionate parents.
But Kanner took a dim view of these abilities, claiming that the kids were just regurgitating things they'd heard their pompous parents say, desperate to earn their approval.
Instead of blaming parents for causing autism, Asperger framed it as a lifelong, polygenetic disability that requires compassionate forms of support and accommodations over the course of one's whole life.
Lorna and Judith realized that Kanner had been as wrong about autism being rare as he had been about parents causing it.
Before "Rain Man" came out in 1988, only a tiny, ingrown circle of experts knew what autism looked like, but after Dustin Hoffman's unforgettable performance as Raymond Babbitt earned "Rain Man" four Academy Awards, pediatricians, psychologists, teachers and parents all over the world knew what autism looked like.
[Seventy] years later, we're still catching up to Asperger, who believed that the "cure" for the most disabling aspects of autism is to be found in understanding teachers, accommodating employers, supportive communities, and parents who have faith in their children's potential.
My parents moved from Libya, North Africa, to Canada in the early 1980s, and I am the middle child of 11 children.
But growing up, I saw my parents, both religiously devout and spiritual people, pray and praise God for their blessings, namely me of course, but among others.
And my parents' understanding of God as a merciful and beneficial friend and provider shaped the way I looked at the world.
And even with the foundation my parents had provided for me, I found myself questioning the role of women in my faith.
Alec Soth: So about 10 years ago, I got a call from a woman in Texas, Stacey Baker, and she'd seen some of my photographs in an art exhibition and was wondering if she could commission me to take a portrait of her parents.
I took the picture of her parents, but I was actually more excited about photographing Stacey.
That same summer, in Egypt, the home where my parents are originally from, I was with children that looked a lot more like me but couldn't have been more different.
Well, I was born in South Africa and my parents were imprisoned for resisting the racist regime.
My parents were both elected to the first parliament, alongside Nelson and Winnie Mandela.
Every generation is twice as well-off as its parents'.
And in this process, many people will be less well-off than their parents.
BJK: Well, I always drove my parents crazy because I was always the curious one.
My poor parents did not care if we were any good.
As they grew together as parents and friends, they talked a lot about how hard it was to make money when your kids are little.
So she created a support group for parents like her.
I was bussed to a school in the suburbs, from a neighborhood that many of my classmates and their parents considered dangerous.
Others prefer the story that poor people are helpless and probably had neglectful parents that didn't read to them enough, and if they were just told what to do and shown the right path, they could make it.
For every story I hear demonizing low-income single mothers or absentee fathers, which is how people might think of my parents, I've got 50 that tell a different story about the same people, showing up every day and doing their best.
Immediately, she made the inroads with the teachers and the parents and the students and everything, and so suddenly it was actually full every day.
The neighborhood's going to tell us, the parents are going to tell us.
Because what about the students that wouldn't come to you, necessarily, who don't have really active parents that are bringing them in, or aren't close enough?"
So then you have the villain containment unit, where kids put their parents.
Students and parents need you.
And I notice other parents were watching too, and I swear they were thinking the same thing I was: this is why you don't let nine-year-olds swim from Alcatraz.
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