Pope Looks To Destigmatize Autism

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48. Autism was 1st documented in the medical literature 71 years ago. Tool around the video selectively.

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COVER PHOTO:

The Nervous Child

Quarterly Journal of Psychopathology, Psychotherapy, Mental Hygiene, and Guidance of the Child
Ernest Harms, Editor-in-Chief

Vol II, No 3
April 1943

SPECIAL ISSUE: AFFECTIVE CONTACT DISTURBANCES IN CHILDREN

Contents:

PATHOLOGY:
Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact... by Leo Kanner... page 217

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"The first child diagnosed with autism was born in 1931. We discovered that her name was Vivian Murdock and that she was born in Baltimore...

Twelve years later in 1943 a psychiatrist at JHU in Baltimore named Leo Kanner wrote a report titled "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" that began with these words, "Since 1938, there have come to our attention a number of children whose condition differs so markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far, that each case merits - and, I hope, will eventually receive - a detailed consideration of its fascinating peculiarities."

Elsewhere he called it "a behavior pattern not known to me or anyone else theretofore." In other words, autism as it came to be known was new and remarkable and hard to miss and no one had ever seen it before. Now in this report Leo Kanner identified 11 children he studied, all of whom were born in the 1930s, although only by first name and last initial. Working together over the past 8 years, we have now been able to uncover the real identity of 8 of these children and their families..."