Help - early book about autistic child?

CuriousJane
Mon, 28 May 2012 21:08:56 +0000

If Dibs was in fact real, and not fictional, then Dibs was not autistic. Autism isn’t caused by mothers, and it isn’t cured by psychotherapy. When children with autism make dramatic gains, it doesn’t happen in the way it was described in the book.

It’s a beautiful book, but it’s not a book about Autism, and needs to be read in the context of an era that was incredibly harsh and judgmental towards the mothers of children with either emotional or developmental disabilities.