Author: kfwilliams
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My Aunt Mettie
May 1st started Mental Health Awareness month. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States (roughly 43.8 million people) experience mental illness in a given year; either from direct observation or first-hand experience. My experiences with mental illness came from direct observation. Every Christmas, from…
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Final Thoughts on National Autism Awareness Month
From my research, I’ve realized there is one important aspect within each moment of the history of autism – mostly everything the world knows about the disorder came from the efforts of parents advocating for their children. If it wasn’t for a father, so opposed to the claim that parents cause autism, that he devoted his…
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Controversy Regarding Asperger’s Syndrome
A year after Leo Kanner published his findings on autism, Austrian physician Hans Asperger described “a particularly interesting and highly recognizable type of child” in his 1944 article ‘Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood. Like Kanner, he presented case studies describing the following four children’s clinical characteristics and commonalities. Fritz V. ‘A highly unusual boy who showed…
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