7/2/2023 0 Comments NeurotribesBut understanding and acceptance have since progressed in leaps and bounds. ” Silberman’s story on the topic, The Geek Syndrome, was published by Wired in 2001.īack then, it was not uncommon to hear autism spoken about in this way. Something terrible is happening to our children. He was sitting in a cafe, telling a friend how he’d recently met two Silicon Valley power couples, each with a profoundly autistic child, when a teacher at the next table overheard and butted in: “There’s an epidemic of autism in Silicon Valley. F ifteen years ago, Steve Silberman was working as a journalist for Wired magazine in San Francisco, as the digital revolution was really taking off.
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