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Steve Silberman: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015) 4 stars

Humans treating humans badly

4 stars

This book feels like it is 80-90% about horrible ways that autistic people have suffered throughout history--including getting killed in ancient times and Nazi Germany, or getting institutionalized in the United States for being "feeble-minded," which really meant not conforming to the behavior that polite society expected. Near the end of the book, there start to be some positive stories, and some autistic people start to get a voice.