Topic: Infantile Autism

Wayne McRoy provides a historical timeline of autism, noting the term was first coined in 1911 to describe symptoms in schizophrenic patients. He identifies 1943 as the year Leo Kanner established autism as a unique disorder, though it remained largely categorized as childhood schizophrenia until the 1960s. The data shows a massive escalation in cases starting in the 1990s, leading McRoy to classify the current situation as a modern epidemic.