The American public’s fascination with neurodivergence has increased significantly in recent years. One possibility for this newfound obsession is that autism has become an interpretive screen onto which anxieties about technology, identity, and the future are projected.
BERKELEY—A spectrum is haunting America—or at least the New York Times: the autism spectrum. Over the course of one week, the newspaper of record ran a profile of a 28-year-old nonverbal autistic novelist, reported on the popularity of the Netflix dating show Love on the Spectrum, and published an article titled “For People With Autism, Can Restaurant Kitchens Be a Haven?”
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