Sinclair aimed to dispel... Lovaas's notion that there was a normal child trapped within the 'autistic shell.' Sinclair described autism instead as 'a way of being... [that] colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion, and encounter, every aspect of existence."

About halfway through this wonderful tome and WOW is it interesting. I love that it puts autism in the context of the whole world, rather than just in the context of the clinic and the classroom.