Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘autism’ in 1911, from the Greek ‘auto’ meaning ‘self’, originally as a symptom of schizophrenia.

Soviet child psychiatrist Grunya Sukhareva published the first clinical description of what is recognised as autism in 1925.

American child psychiatrist Leo Kanner defined ‘autism’ as it is used in the modern world in 1943.

And Austrian child psychiatrist Hans Asperger described the type of autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome in 1944.

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