Henry David Thoreau and Two Other Autistic Lives: before the diagnosis existed

The formal diagnosis of Autism was not established until about 1940. The idea of a spectrum of autistic experiences came still later. But surely High Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome existed before their diagnoses. Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein have often been mentioned as possibly having had Asperger’s. The proof, however, would seem to be lacking. This book offers three names from history that can verifiably be shown to have exhibited unmistakable, detailed, high functioning autistic personal behaviors. Algernon Charles Swinburne, Henry David Thoreau and Henry Cavendish: their stories, and the adjustments that they and their family and friends made in order to empower them to be highly successful, are fascinating and victorious. Their biographies are also interesting and entertaining in their own right.