Who Were The Autistic People Of History?

There’s often precious little for the autistic community to celebrate. Rates for anxiety and depression are extremely high, our average age of death is frighteningly early, attitudes and awareness of our neuro-type are usually pretty poor and now we’re being smeared by some with the Nazi brush due to our un-asked for association with Dr Hans Asperger. This latter moment of misery came right smack in the month of April, which is traditionally a rough time for autistic people anyway, a