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Originally Posted by Aaida
Oi!  I didn't quote statistics, and I didn't say that people of normal or sub-normal intelligence cannot have a mental illness. Neither was I implying that intelligent people often have borderline disorders only - I included acute and borderline illnesses and family history of mental illness. Einstein himself had schizophrenia in his immediate family (some doctors in the field believe he himself had high-functioning autism, but that's conjecture. Autism wasn't a diagnosis until the 40's or 50's?) |
1943, to be exactly. But then again, look at my signature... What the heck do *I* know about it? *Blink* Dr. Leo Kanner (pronounced like "Conner") had 11 kids at Johns Hopkins all with the same withdrawn symptoms. So he coined the term "autism" for them, because there was an abnormal absortion into self.
(If only I could talk the publisher into making those two books below into ebooks! God knows I've tried. Oh, how I have tried!)
