Table of Contents

Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Introduction: Beyond the Geek Syndrome

1. The Wizard of Clapham Common

2. The Boy Who Loves Green Straws

3. What Sister Viktorine Knew

4. Fascinating Peculiarities

5. The Invention of Toxic Parenting

6. Princes of the Air

7. Fighting the Monster

8. Nature's Smudged Lines

9. The Rain Man Effect

10. Pandora's Box

11. In Autistic Space

12. Building The Enterprise: Designs for a Neurodiverse World

Epilogue: The Mayor of Kensington

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Steve Silberman is an award-winning investigative reporter and has covered science and cultural affairs for Wired and other national magazines for more than twenty years. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, Nature and Salon.