我们是否完全误解了自闭症？

“It’s time to break up this huge spectrum to make it more intelligible” After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith tells Thomas Lewton why she thinks we should scrap our current view of the condition and start again U TA FRITH seems remarkably cheerful and content for someone who’s spent six decades trying and failing to get to grips with her life’s obsession. “Very little has stood the test of time,” she tells me as we sit down in her living room in a leafy estate in Harrow-on-the-Hill, London. Over tea and homemade macaroons, we discussed how the evolution of the condition reflects on our present situation. …