Dr. Edward Ritvo, professor emeritus at UCLA's medical school and one of the psychiatrists who wrote the original definition of autism for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, explains the phenomenon in a very different way.

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Neither are mental problems a strictly modern-day phenomenon.

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All the doctors, psychologists and mental health experts tell us the same thing: This is what happens next in a phenomenon like this.

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