What a Memoir about Autism Can Teach Us in a Therapeutic Age

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Let Me Hear Your Voice is a book about childhood autism that was published under a pseudonym in 1993. There is almost zero chance the book could be published at all today. Thirty years ago, the author (calling herself Catherine Maurice) was raising a fierce objection to the most medically entrenched views on infantile a…