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Is the changing definition of autism narrowing what we think of as 'normal'?

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imageIs normal behavior being pathologized?Elizabeth Albert/Flickr, CC BY

I first learned about autism in 1997 in my high school psychology course. It was relegated to a small paragraph in a chapter on childhood disorders. The film Rainman had come out a decade earlier, publicizing the condition to a degree. But autism still wasn’t well-known...

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