![]() In 2000, I was on a boat in Alaska with more than 100 computer programmers for a “geek cruise.” As one might imagine, there were a lot of socially awkward but also very brilliant people who had worked on the foundations of the web. How did you become interested in the subject of autism? ![]() I was a senior science writer for Wired magazine for about 15 years. I eventually got interested in writing and poetry, and I became Allen Ginsburg’s teaching assistant in college. ![]() ![]() I went to a Jewish day camp when I was a little kid. First off, tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Camping Magazine recently spoke with Steve Silberman, New York Times best-selling author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, to discuss old attitudes, the changing definition of autism, and the beginning of a social movement aimed at ensuring that neurodivergent people have a seat at society’s the proverbial table. The path to recognizing neurodiversity - “the notion that conditions like autism, dyslexia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be regarded as naturally occurring cognitive variations with distinctive strengths that have contributed to the evolution of technology and culture rather than mere checklists of deficits and dysfunctions” (Silberman, 2015) - has been a long and winding one. ![]()
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