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Wilma Wake
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February 5 - May 22, 2023
As we age, it’s important for us to learn more about ourselves, and to leave a legacy for future generations to understand this worldwide transition in autism awareness. To understand the struggles that beset our spectrum elders, we need to look at what was happening in the world, and in the world of autism, when we were born and grew up.
Mary and Beamon took their 3-year-old son to the family doctor, who concluded that the boy was being overstimulated by his parents. The doctor gave the usual advice for that era: institutionalize him. Parents were urged to put such “defective children” in an institution for life and cut off all contact. Mary and Beamon lived at a time when people believed that children with disabilities were a danger to society and were considered less than human [Donvan & Zucker, 2016].
It was based on the concept of curative education: Heilpädagogik. Lazar
