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SciWriteLabs 7.1: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on neurodiversity and writing about autism

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 6, 2012
Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged Amy Harmon, Asperger syndrome, David Wolman, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, Look Me In the Eye, neurodiversity, neurology, Steve Silberman, Twitter, Wired | 5 Comments
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