well thank the lordy you lot are not involved closely with autistic children writes know-all Peter Pedant
I thought it all kicked off yesterday with Kanner ( and I REALLY do expect Sqad to say - oh, yeah, him) and
The adrenalin blood pressure curves in dementia praecox and the emotional psychoses
L Kanner - American Journal of Psychiatry, 1928 -
Of the thirty-four selected cases of dementia præcox, fifteen were of the catatonic, thirteen of
the hebephrenic, four of the paranoid, one of the simple and one of the mixed catatonic and
hebephrenic type. In order to eliminate the possible effect of physical diseases.... blah blah blah it goes on.
but Kanner sets the world alight instead with his 1943 paper, compared to 1928 is only yesterday
Autistic disturbances of affective contact
which is here
http://mail.neurodiversity.com/library_kanner_1943.pdf
and from there one could read
https://www.neurodiversity.com/library_kanner_1971a.pdf
Autism seems to have been Kanners bird really
are these children not really ill
but just naughty and so you beat them ?
I hope the references above lead just one to change his mind