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‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman
The history of science is studded with stories of simultaneous discovery, in which two imaginative souls (or more!) turn out to have been digging tunnels to the same unspoiled destination. The most fabled example is calculus, developed independently in two different countries by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.
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This seemed interesting because as a note passing grade-schooler I personally conceived of/invented text messaging, but the author's very point was undermined for me by bringing up Asperger's as an example. It was just days ago that I learnt on Snapzu that Kanner rescued from the Nazi regime Asperger's assistant and subsequently spent the following decades promulgating his own take on the combined findings of his and Ausperger's research whilst obscuring anything related to acknowledging Asperger as a source --before much later finally conceding a perspective in keeping with that of the other clinician's perspective.
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