a-german-muffin t1_je0ih9m wrote
Reply to comment by MaimedJester in Mad about book bans in school libraries? Philadelphia has a solution - no libraries at all! Only 7/217 schools have libraries for their kids. by youngbuck215
> or kids with Asperger's
Not for nothing, but Asperger's hasn't been a diagnosis for a decade (not least because Herr Asperger was a Nazi collaborator who referred disabled kids to a clinic where they were probably murdered). It's folded into the somewhat broader autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-1 as of DSM V*.
*whoops wrong revision
CheapBoxOWine t1_je0yrvx wrote
That sounds made up. Literally not saying it is, but it sounds fake. I will have to look this up or someone please source.
a-german-muffin t1_je10blr wrote
Right year, wrong Roman numeral — it was the DSM-V revision (got that one mixed up).
As for Asperger himself being a Nazi collaborator, it's well established.
> Sheffer lays out the evidence, from sources such as medical records and referral letters, showing that Asperger was complicit in this Nazi killing machine. He protected children he deemed intelligent. But he also referred several children to Vienna’s Am Spiegelgrund clinic, which he undoubtedly knew was a centre of ‘child euthanasia’, part of what was later called Aktion T4.
CheapBoxOWine t1_je26iv6 wrote
Dope. Thank you.
I don't go around reading a bunch about Nazis but if you went on the internet and someone just told you an autistic disorder is named after one, would you just accept it as fact?
a-german-muffin t1_je2dxb9 wrote
Legit, dude. No judgment from me on that mark!
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