Donald Tripplett

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In some of my other posts some of you told me some bad things about Kanner, as if he was in favor of hospitalizing his patients for live and forbidding their "refregirator mother" from communicating with them. Well, the case of his first patient, Donald Tripplett (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Donald-Triplett), surely looks different. Donald was hospitalized *before* they found Kanner, and they found him with an express purpose of taking him *out* of the hospital, which they did. Donald had a great support network throughout his life, and perhaps that network developed it out of Kanner having him work in a farm for a year. Also his mother seems to have had pretty good relationship with Kanner as well. So yeah, I just don't see how Kanner was bad in Donald's case. Or are you saying he treated some of his other patients worse?

Having done real harm and real good seems common in key figures in autistic history.

Ivan Lovass father of Applied Behavorial Analysis is one of the most dispised figures in Autism history for his use of aversives of slapping and electrically shocking his child autistic patients. For his day his treatments were relatively humane. Corperal punishment was commen parenting then and as his treatment was it was not nearly as bad as the lifetime sentencing of autistic children to institutions where they were subject to all sorts of tortures and experimants. Bernard Rimland is praised for his role in breaking the stranglehold of the refrigerator mother theory and starting the parent organizations that were vital in giving autistic and disabled children the legal right to an education yet he supported Lovass’s harsh ABA and varoius quack cures.