Except autism, or as it was called then "autistic psychopathy" is anything but a condition or discovery https://archive.ph/nOH4z https://archive.ph/nOH4z (note:

Except autism, or as it was called then "autistic psychopathy" is anything but a condition or discovery https://archive.ph/nOH4z https://archive.ph/nOH4z (note: it's a nature.com link) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43820794 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43820794 Autism is exactly one thing, according to its discoverer, Hans Asperger: a diagnosis to remove the mentally undesirable from society to safeguard the genetic purity of the noble aryan race (translated from the paper by Hans Asperger) Note: by removing he meant killing anyone with the "diagnosis", child or adult. Hans Asperger signed the orders to kill at least 5 children, probably many more. In other words: the "discovery of autism" was nothing other than an excuse to massacre children deemed to be a burden on families for whatever reason. If you were diagnosed with autism and weren't hyperintelligent, you were sent away to be killed. It was the absolute opposite of neurodiversity, of tolerance, of neurodivergent people and it was never meant as a real diagnosis of a real condition. It was an excuse for murder. Of course, psychology sees no problem with this little part of history and still revere Hans Asperger as a hero, as opposed to someone who should have been hanged at Nuremberg along with his colleagues. Psychology has a history of doing this. If you check what happened to Freud's patients, especially the women, you'll see that he was a seriously disturbed person as well. He made (in today's dollars) billions testifying in court that women who accused rich Austrians, often their own family, of rape they wanted to be raped and should be locked up for this deviant behavior ("not" to protect and satisfy the desire for revenge in their rapists). Oh and in a few cases, that male victims of murder by their own family were guilty of their own murder.