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Neurotribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Pdf FREE NEUROTRIBES: THE LEGACY OF AUTISM AND THE FUTURE OF NEURODIVERSITY PDF Steve Silberman,Oliver Sacks | 544 pages | 20 Oct 2015 | Avery Publishing Group | 9781583334676 | English | United States NeuroTribes - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman. Going back to the earliest days of autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades, Silberman provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle, while mapping out a path for our society toward Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity more humane world in which people with learning differences and those who love them have access to the reso Going back to the earliest days of autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades, Silberman provides long-sought solutions to Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity autism puzzle, while mapping out a path for our society toward a more humane world in which people with learning differences and those who love them have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure, and more meaningful lives. Get A Copy. HardcoverFirst Edition U. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about NeuroTribesplease sign up. Is it really useful to make others believe in the power of neurodiversity? Sarah I think all human beings have value, period. No one deserves to be abused or dehumanized. If Silberman like Asperger before him sometimes overemphas …more I think all human beings have value, period. If Silberman like Asperger before him sometimes overemphasizes our contributions to art and science, it's because he knows how much hate, and greed, and fear-mongering are still out there. I'm not a tech genius, but I'm glad to have autistic role models. I'm glad to see children given a chance. I'm glad to see parents who truly love and accept their children for who they are not hurting and shaming them for who they aren't and who respect the input of autistic adults. Every time I see a functioning label, it breaks my heart. Just imagine being objectified that way. As of right now, that's the rule, not the exception. But since society doesn't value me, no parent will listen. It seems to me that autism and Asperger's are synonymous in the minds of so many that a very broad section of the spectrum is many times ignored e. Can anyone tell me if this book covers the entire spectrum? Lars The book as a whole covers the history and discovery of Autism. It also focuses on the main contributors and their mistakes. It's not a book on diagno …more The book as a whole covers the history and discovery of Autism. It's not a book on diagnostics. It's more of a deep story and manifesto on how many parents and doctors have fought to reduce the stigma, misconceptions and general malaise surrounding and associated with autism. It's a Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity for more focus on Neurodiversity. Seeing all people as having traits that can be associated with any of the main psychological disorders. Being that we as humans are all on a continuum of one sort or the other. See all 8 questions about NeuroTribes…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Feb 27, Petra-X rated it really liked it Shelves: popculture-anthropologymedicine-sciencereviewspsycho-neurology-crimereviewedread. Very long review. The book was hard to rate. Some of it is as bad as a 1-star: excreble writing when he's giving far too much detail about the irrelevant to the book discoveries of the 18thC scientist Henry Cavendish whom he confidently diagnoses as Aspergers. People forget that DSM is a for-profit company. It had 25 committees of people searching for evidence of at least 25 different symptoms of autism. They were well paid as professionals. They consulted all kinds of people from teachers to those therapists qualified by attendance at a day's seminar in some hotel ballroom. In other words, everyone involved had a pecuniary interest in diagnosing autism in as broad a way as possible. For those who might be autistic or have aspergers or might not but definitely seemed to have something, there was always PDD-NOS. The intention was that children being diagnosed would have a certain number of symptoms from list A, from list B and list C. However, instead of 'and' the word 'or' was substituted. Hans Asperger said, a long time ago and his words have been nearly forgotten, trampled on and now totally ignored, not to pathologise eccentricities! Just because someone is weird doesn't make them mental! Forget that, they're all on the spectrum now. I was going to write a long and well-argued hopefully review of the book and of own my own opinion that Aspergers and Autism are not related at all. But I'll keep that for another time and stick to reviewing the book view spoiler [in as much as I ever stick to the point hide spoiler ]. But the figures for adults are more or less the same in all the countries of the West. By all evidence that I've seen and read, Aspergers is most often just a Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity type, that is unless you want to diagnose almost the entirety of Silicon Valley and perhaps computer people in general with having it. Would we even be so advanced in electronics without these people? In any case, quite a few of the 'symptoms' of Aspergers are common to Prosopagnosia or face-blindness I have it so I know which is only just being recognised and most people with it just think they are bad at remembering people, but there is more to it than that. If a child has hobbies he is really into, he's encouraged and parents' say things like, 'the way he's always taking apart things, you could see he's going to be an engineer'. If a child would rather just play with one good friend, then that friend gets invited over more for tea and parents' say he's a bit of a loner. If the child is really good at maths, parents praise him. But once he has a diagnosis of autism, suddenly he's not got a hobby he's mad keen on, no that's perseveration, his kind of sociability is now inability to communicate, his ability with maths is an unhealthy autistic obsession. And so it goes It's a self-fulfilling diagnosis. So overall, it's quite a good book on the history of the diagnosis of Austism and relatively recently, Aspergers. But it isn't really about Neurotribes at all. A final thought. There would still be those who were definitely abnormal, Autism wouldn't go away, but people who are different wouldn't be labelled and if there were enough of them in each group, might get special ed. As in - a group of nerdy loners that don't like playing games in the playground, could be taught together in their Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity academic subjects and everyone would be a winner. Teachers, children and society. In Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity case it's better than making them depressed and feeling bad about not fitting in by labelling them abnormal. Notes on reading the book view spoiler [ Even though the author was intent on including own evidence to support that, there were enough signs when h Update It's getting better. I'm on to Vienna and Asperger. The problem I have with the book is I think Aspergers is a misdiagnosed most of the time and b it isn't related to Autism at all and all I'm reading is the conventional viewpoint and absolute disdain for unconventional therapies which I more or less share. The author writes well but it does seem to be confirmation bias all the way through. He has an agenda and includes only that which fits into it. An interesting point. Firstly that Sweden removed the mercury preservative from it's vaccines back in and Japan banned the MMR altogether. Their rate of autism is on a par with other countries using the same diagnostic criteria, it hasn't dropped. The vaccine thing was proved to be a hoax and Wakefield a charlatan. He was actually employed to prove that the vaccine caused damage and had produced his own vaccine to sell in place of the 'damaging' one, but still the myths linger Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. Is it because autism is generally diagnosed at age 2, past the age of vaccines, and the parents must have someone or something to blame? I understand that Silberman was trying to prove historically that Cavendish had Asperger's Syndrome, but all it proved to me was the author's confirmation bias.
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