How we tell stories matters. “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity,” a lively, readable new book by journalist Steve Silberman, is about the many ways we have told the ...

There is something no doubt ironic about recommending as a Christmas gift a book written by a Jewish man, but given the holiday spirit, it was the best way I could think to convey what I think about ...

Is autism a natural manifestation of human diversity—or a condition to be cured? That’s the question at the heart of Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of ...

“Not everything that steps out of the line, and is thus ‘abnormal,’ must necessarily be ‘inferior.’” –Hans Asperger [Note: This review and interview initially appeared at PLOS Blogs and are reproduced ...

The winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is optimistic about how the world can become a better place for autism The late neurologist, Oliver Sacks, called Neurotribes a “sweeping and ...

It’s a fun parlour game to diagnose figures from the past with illnesses recognised by modern science. Did the biblical Goliath have the growth disorder acromegaly? Was Henry VIII a psychopath? Was ...

Physicist Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) and quantum mechanics pioneer and Nobel laureate in Physics Paul Dirac (1902–1984). Besides being British physicists, both men shared a reputation for being ...

“A six-year-old boy,” reported the Times of India, “has been returned to his parents after being in the company of wolves for four and a half years.” In the fall of 1957, shortly after this story ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Increasingly, people on the autistic spectrum have come to regard their condition as both a disability and a gift.