A discussion of the different ways autistic children have been targets of violence throughout history.
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Neurotribes by Steve Silberman
In a Different Key by John Donvan and Karen Zucker
Asperger's Children by Edith Sheffer
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
Changelings by D.L. Ashliman
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/changeling.html
The Rise and Decline of Psychiatric Hydrotherapy
http://psych-history.weill.cornell.edu/osk_die_lib/hydrotherapy/default.htm
Churchill and Eugenics by Sir Martin Gilbert
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Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25308/25308-h/25308-h.htm
Is ABA Therapy Really "Dog Training For Children"? A Professional Dog Trainer Weighs In
https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/27/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in/
Fake autism treatments show the lengths parents will go to “cure” their kids
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/19/18684109/autism-vaccines-treatment-cure-bleach
The fake cures for autism that can prove deadly
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/fake-cures-autism-prove-deadly
FDA Begs Public to Please Stop Drinking Bleach
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Chelation therapy offers small, if any, benefit for heart disease
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/chelation-therapy-offers-small-if-any-benefit-for-heart-disease-201303266030
School Shocks Students With Disabilities. The FDA Is Moving To Ban The Practice
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/687636057/massachusetts-school-defends-use-of-electric-shock-treatments
Mom says staffers abused special needs son
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/mom-says-staffers-abused-special-needs-son/326998611
Video shows off-duty Chicago police officer shooting unarmed autistic man
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/17/video-shows-chicago-police-officer-shoot-unarmed-autistic-man
Disability Day of Mourning
https://disability-memorial.org/