Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Off the Spectrum
A little over 100 hundred years ago, the term “autism” was first used to describe an aspect of schizophrenia. What we now know were autistic children were diagnosed at the time as schizophrenic. Previously, autistic people were considered to have dementia, or “developmental retardation”. In the 1930s and 40s, scholars began to appreciate that autism and schizophrenia were actually distinct from each other – though both still considered to be psychiatric conditions. It took until[…]
