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The history of neurodivergence

The Neurodivergent Woman

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The Neurodiversity of Autism

Leo Cana immigrated to America to flee the World War and the Nazis, while Asperger's worked at the hospital in Vienna under the Nazis' reign. And he produced some research that caught the eye of a famous psychiatrist in America. He was more focused on the idea of autism and like about behaviors, like repetitive behaviors. I think he actually had a role in the whole refrigerator mother theory of autism as well.

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