Dear Reader,
Welcome to Conversation Hysteria.
My name is Norton Gunthorpe and I am an Autistic man in my forties. I live in a provincial town in the east of the England. I am happily, indeed ecstatically, divorced with an adult daughter.
My doctor, who is so elevated and noble as to be practically unapproachable, is a clinical colleague of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen.
I saw my first psychiatrist and psychologist when I was three years old and spent the next 15 years in a variety of special schools and institutions.
It was a childhood that left me well prepared for life to follow. A life not at all uncommon, but rarely recounted.
For nearly three decades I have watched as Autism has been transformed from an almost unheard of and rarely seen childhood condition, to one which threatens to cripple the UK's economy and burdens its tax-payers with its £28 billion annual cost.
For nearly three decades I have watched as Autism has been transformed from an almost unheard of and rarely seen childhood condition, to one which threatens to cripple the UK's economy and burdens its tax-payers with its £28 billion annual cost.
I have been appalled at the ignorance and venom that powers the caustic debates surrounding Autism; left speechless at the doublethink proudly displayed by the intellectual elite and enraged at the degradation and politicization of my very being.
Ich bin der Autistischen Psychopath im Erwachsenenalter
And I come to claim my tithe.
