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Watch ‘Refrigerator Mothers’, a Documentary about Autism
Monday, September 8th, 2008

Mothers of autistic children in the ’50s and ’60s had few resources or information about their children’s condition. And so they took the blame when medical orthodoxy blamed autism on the mother’s failure to bond with her child. Watch documentary. Read more. Originally aired 2002.

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