Most of chapter 1, as well as the closing pages of chapter 12, appeared as „Exiting Nirvana“ in The American Scholar, spring 1998. I owe special thanks to Anne Fadiman, the Scholars editor; that trial run, made at her suggestion, gave me the courage to undertake this book.
Passages in chapters 1 and 3 from Leo Kanner, „Autistic Disturbances of Affective Control“, reprinted by permission of the publisher from Donnellan, A., Classic Readings in Autism (New York: Teachers College Press © 1985 by Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reserved.).
Passages in chapters 2 and 4 from Lorna Wing, „The Relationship Between Asperger’s Syndrome and Kanner’s Autism“, and in chapter 3 from Uta Frith, reprinted from Uta Frith, ed., Autism and Asperger Syndrome (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press.
Portions of chapters 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, and 1 x have been adapted from passages in „Growing Out of Autism“, in E. Schopler and G. B. Mesibov, eds.
Autism in Adolescents and Adults, Plenum Press, 1983; „Social Growtl Autism: A Parent’s Perspective“, in E. Schopler and G. B. Mesibov eds» Social Behavior in Autism, Plenum Press, 1986; and «Autism into Art: A Handicap Transfigured», in E. Schopler and G. B. Mesibov, eds., High-Functioning Individuals with Autism, Plenum Press, 1992.
Passages in chapter 3 from Eric Courchesne et al., «Recent Advances in Autism», reprinted from H. Naruse and E. M. Ornitz, eds., Neurobiology and Infantile Autism, Elsevier Science Publications, 1992. Reprinted by permission of Elsevier Science.
Passages in chapters 5 and 6 from Lola Bogyo and Ronald Ellis, «Elly: A Study in Contrasts», reprinted from L. K. Obler and D. Fein, eds., The Exceptional Brain (Guilford Press, 1988). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Passages in chapter 5 from David Park and Philip Youderian, «Light and Number: Ordering Principles in the World of an Autistic Child», reprinted by permission from Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, vol. 4, no. 4 (1974).
Passage in Appendix I reprinted with permission from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition. Copyright 1994 American Psychiatric Association.
Примечания
1
The words are from my earlier book about Jessy, The Siege: The First Eight Years of an Autistic Child, originally published by Little, Brown in 1967. It was reissued in 1982 with an epilogue, „Fifteen Years After“. It is being issued in 2001 as The Siege: A Family’s journey into the World of an Autistic Child. (The quoted passage is on page 3.)
2
Bruno Bettelheim, The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self (New York: Free Press, 1967), p. 125.
3
Leo Kanner, „Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact“ (1943), in Classic Readings in Autism, A. M. Donnellan, ed. (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1985), p. 50. Kanner spoke at a meeting of the National Society for Autistic Children, July 17–19, 1969.
4
Clifford Geertz, „Learning with Bruner“, New York Review of Books, April 10, 1997.
5
Lorna Wing, „The Relationship Between Asperger’s Syndrome and Kanner’s Autism“, in Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Uta Frith, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 111.
6
Ibid., p. 109.
7
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM IV) (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1994).
8
NAARRATIVE: Newsletter of the National Alliance for Autism Research, no. 3 (fall 1998).
9
Ibid., no. 6 (summer 2000)
10
Kanner, op. cit., p. 43.
