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"Steve Silberman, author of
NeuroTribes, a groundbreaking history of autism
that fundamentally changed how society understood autistic people, has died,
aged 66.
While many people write about a community from the vantage point of an
outsider, few can be credited with making the world a better place for that
community. Silberman, whose death has left many of us truly devastated, was one
of those few.
The science writer was also an expert on the Grateful Dead, the subject of his
first (co-authored) book, and once worked as a teaching assistant for Allen
Ginsberg.
“What connected his many interests was his affinity for underdogs and the
misrepresented, whether it was the neurodivergent community, the gay community
to which he proudly belonged, and, in a way, Deadheads,”
Rolling Stone wrote
in their eulogy."
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
