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Underground Wellness Radio

Steve Silberman: NeuroTribes, The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Underground Wellness Radio

Sean Croxton

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6526 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sean welcomes journalist Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Diversity, to set the record straight about the recent “explosion” of autism diagnoses.
 
 
Topics include:
 
- How Adolf Hitler sent our understanding of autism back 40-50 years.
 
- The man who shamed thousands of parents by blaming autism on “refrigerator mothers”.
 
- BOMBSHELL: A single-word typo in a diagnostic manual that forever changed the face of autism.
 
- Why vaccines are NOT responsible for the modern rise in autism diagnoses. 

- How the anti-vaccine movement may be hampering the efforts for improved services and education for autistic children and adults.
 
PLUS, a huge announcement about The Digestion Sessions!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's episode 346 of Underground Wellness Radio.

0:03.3

Here's what's coming up.

0:05.1

The autism parenting community is often stereotyped as a bunch of people who are focused on vaccines or cures or whatever.

0:13.7

For decades, the autism parenting community, both in the United States and in England,

0:18.6

were focused on changing the world and changing laws and changing public policy to make the world a better place.

0:25.7

And I think we will find that as we make the world better for people with autism and other cognitive disabilities, that it will end up being better for everyone.

0:35.8

Grieve if you must for your own lost dreams, but don't mourn for us.

0:40.1

We are alive.

0:41.3

We are real.

0:42.2

And we're here waiting for you.

0:53.5

Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to another episode of Underground Wellness Radio,

0:57.5

brought to you by Underground Wellness.com. Thanks so much for tuning in. I have not started

1:03.1

my travels just yet. That's a couple weeks away. Just been kind of chilling over the last few weeks,

1:08.7

but I was in the Bay Area at a bookstore, and this book just kind of jumped out at me.

1:15.1

It's called Neurotrives, The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman, today's guest.

1:21.8

And I just had to read it.

1:24.1

And it was a real page Turner.

1:26.6

And I was like, yo, we have to have Steve on the show because

1:29.7

he paints a very clear picture. He tells a fantastic story of the timeline of autism. And it's

1:38.4

something that's really been forgotten about. And it's very important the way that he shares

1:43.9

this story. And it's very important the way that he shares this story. And it's very relevant

1:45.6

in terms of our focus on vaccines these days as the cause of the significant rise in autism.

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