Summary of Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes

Summary of Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes seeks to unearth what autism is and why it remains a mystery.

Hans Asperger, a researcher and pediatrician working at the University of Vienna, first identified the disorder as occurring in many different forms and severities on a spectrum and saw the link between autism and high intelligence in areas such as music and mathematics. He called his patients little professors...