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4. And to think it all started with the so-called 'refrigerator mother' theory.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/health/autism-fast-facts/

Autism Fast Facts
By CNN Library
updated 1:09 PM EDT, Fri March 28, 2014

October 1938 - Five-year-old Donald Gray Triplett of Mississippi is first examined by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins Hospital and later becomes the first person diagnosed with autism symptoms.

1943 - Triplett is referred to as "Donald T." in the paper "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," by Leo Kanner. The paper expounds on the idea that autism is related to lack of parental warmth; this is later dubbed the "refrigerator mother" theory.

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