UNFILTEREDMagazine · ANCHOR ArkansasHow eugenics, psychiatric classification, autism research and infantilization left concepts behind that still shape what society thinks disability means.
The full investigation moves from pre-diagnostic histories of difference through asylum reform, eugenics, Nazi psychiatric killing, Kanner, the DSM, infantilization, deinstitutionalization, double empathy and present disability law.
Essential Guide. A concise explanation of the thesis and ten most important historical connections.
Research dossier. The complete longform article with the historical case files, DSM analysis, glossary, timeline, images and bibliography.
The article is about present authority: who is presumed competent, whose communication is considered credible and when support gets confused with lesser adulthood.
Geel, Fuggerei, Spitaldörfer, Neuerkerode, Bethel, York Retreat, asylums and community living.
Psychiatric statistics, intelligence testing, eugenic pedigrees, the DSM and educational categories.
Kanner, Lorna Wing, Uta Frith, Simon Baron-Cohen, theory of mind, masking and double empathy.
Institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, adulthood, communication, capacity, ADA/504, IDEA and community integration.