'A magnificent opus ... extraordinary, spellbinding ... this book
does what no other on autism has done' Ann Bauer, Washington Post
*Pulitzer finalist 2017* The stunning history of autism as it has
been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors Nearly
seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi
became the first child diagnosed with autism. In a Different Key
tells the extraordinary story of the world his diagnosis created -
a riveting human drama that takes us across continents and through
some of the great social movements of the twentieth century. The
history of autism is, above all, the story of families fighting for
a place in the world for their children. It is the story of women
like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment
that blamed "refrigerator mothers" for causing autism, of fathers
who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments, of parents who
forced schools to accept their children. But many others played
starring roles too: doctors like Leo Kanner, who pioneered our
understanding of autism, scientists who sparred over how to treat
autism, and those with autism, like Temple Grandin and Ari Ne'eman,
who explained their inner worlds and championed a philosophy of
'neurodiversity'. This is also a story of fierce controversy: from
the question of whether there is truly an autism 'epidemic', and
whether vaccines played a part in it, to scandals involving
'facilitated communication', one of many treatments that have
proved to be blind alleys. And there are dark turns too: we learn
about experimenters feeding LSD to children with autism, or
shocking them with electricity to change their behaviour; and the
authors reveal, for the first time, that Hans Asperger, discoverer
of the syndrome named after him, may have cooperated with the Nazis
in sending disabled children to their deaths. By turns intimate and
panoramic, In a Different Key takes us on a journey from an era
when families were shamed and children were condemned to
institutions, to one in which parents and people with autism push
not simply for inclusion, but for a new understanding of autism: as
difference rather than disability.
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