From being called “hopeless” to changing psychiatry forever, Donald Triplett’s life reshaped how we understand autism.
What was once misunderstood is now recognised as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), not something to fix, but to understand.
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Donald Triplett and the Genesis of Autism: The Boy from Forest, Mississippi Who Changed Psychiatry
Donald Triplett’s diagnosis set the spark to neuroscience’s exploration of neurodiversity ablaze. Perhaps the very extraordinary part