Author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller. The Taste of Salt, a history of cystic fibrosis, coming 2025.
Terry Gross of @nprfreshair is the best interviewer in the business. The transcript of my 2015 interview with Terry about my history of #autism and #neurodiversity, #NeuroTribes, is archived here. It was an honor to talk to her.
As an autism mom from the 90s, I questioned vaccines when they contained mercury. That ingredient has been removed, autism numbers have not decreased, & science tends to disprove a link. @stevesilberman can explain better than I why conspiracy theories took off back then. 1/2
[1/2] I rarely post in this cesspool of disinformation anymore, but my late friend @thedavidcrosby would've been thrilled about the rise of Kamala. David was one of the most patriotic people I've ever known -- he loved America deeply. Before David died, he made clear to me...
@gtra1n Nice Bandcamp post on the Beats, thanks. Just one slight miss: Kerouac didn't gloss "beat" as "beatific" because he was "an aspiring Buddhist," but because he was a lifelong Catholic. (I was Ginsberg's teaching assistant.)
LOL-in-horror moments of new @nytimes puff piece: Reporter dutifully reciting Elon Musk's BS about buying Twitter to "test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars," and not realizing "selective breeding" is Nazi eugenics.