Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman
Author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller. The Taste of Salt, a history of cystic fibrosis, coming 2025.
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For those of you who are interested, there is a good bit of Steve Silberman's neurotribes that describes what was happening to disabled people in the run up to WW2.
It's a hard read. What horrified me was not the cruelty but the indifference. You wouldn't treat animals like that
Steve Silberman Today, X CEO Linda Yaccarino boosted racist, antisemitic Tucker Carlson. In case advertisers weren't running away in droves from Elon Musk's X fast enough...
Dear remaining advertisers: The owner of X has a VERY clear message for you: 'Go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself.' (Hi Linda Yaccarino!) mediaite.com/media/go-fck-y…
Autism, Human Connection and the 'Double Empathy' Problem | Scientific American
“Despite stereotypes, many autistic people yearn for meaningful relationships, but they are daunted by neurotypicals’ assumptions about them” Steve Silberman scientificamerican.com/article/autism…