The Retraction of a Paper on Autism

Leo Connor wrote a textbook in 1935. It was the Dr. Spock book of his generation called Child Psychiatry. Nothing about autism. There are diseases or disorders of childhood, but nothing about autism. In 1938, he saw his first kid. The parents took their child with- Who was clearly autistic all the way up from Forest, Mississippi to meet the great Leo Connor and Johns Hopkins University. And there we had the origin of autism. We've been looking at people with negative mental health outcomes for centuries. This is not as though we don't- Just started at this.