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Asperger and Weiss worked on a ward at the Children's Clinic and began approaching special education for children who were "suffering neglect" from a culture that didn't teach them how to learn with their accommodations and to fit their needs.

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Lazar had a clinic used for children to interact with similar minded children to learn how to mingle with "mutual respect and appreciation." He believed this would have a better effect than treating children in isolation.

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Play therapy became the fad and was based off how a child reacted to the doctor saying they had toys available to play with. These sessions were designed to offer the child maximum freedom of expression so that they could observe the child's behavior when authority and adaptation stepped in.

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Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick put the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring into effect. This was for any general citizen who showed signs of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, inherited blindness or deafness could be sterilized.

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Diagnosed autism as schizoid personality disorder, similar to schizophrenia but didn't appear to be caused from a disease, they were just very different than their peers their age.

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The first edition of "Child Psychiatry" was published but seemed to regard the child as a whole, rather than offer symptoms and dysfunctions. The goal was to establish practical and teachable ways to help children without being constrained the dogma of the school of psychiatry.

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Asperger coined the term "Autistischen Psychopathen" to describe their condition between mental health and illness. Autism was also described at this time as, "unmistakable and constant throughout the whole life-span."

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Asperger gave his first public talk on autism in history, in a lecture hall at the University of Hospital. Addressed this talk by asking, "...instead we will address it from the point of view of the abnormal children. How much can we do for these people?" Then proceeds to say "our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties." Not to eliminate them for him, but to train the person to cope with special challenges with special strategies; to make the person aware not that they are ill, but that they are responsible for their lives."

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Research showed that children were identified with "affect disorders" which was their behaviors and traits. It also showed that these types of children were more interested in encyclopedias, mathematics, astronomy, and repetitive movements instead of being interested in their classmates and what other children were doing.

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More than two hundred thousand disabled children and adults were murdered during the official phases of the T-4 program because how they didn't act "normal" or had other conditions that resembled autism or being disabled, or things like failed to develop speech.

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The entire medical infrastructure of Germany and Austria had been transformed into an industry of death.

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Asperger had never seen a case of autism in a female. Even characterized autism as "an extreme variant of male intelligence."

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Kanner publishes a story about the emergence of autism and said there were two main characteristics. #1 was the will to self-isolate called "extreme autistic aloneness." #2 was a fear of change and surprise which was called "an anxiously obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness." He never gave it a name and point blank said "autism" however hinted at its characteristics.

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Asperger notes in his final thesis, "The example of autism shows particularly well how even abnormal personalities can be capable of development and adjustment."
Kanner also gave it a name now, "early infantile autism."

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Autism made its first appearance in the bible of psychiatry "DSM- I" described as "schizophrenic reaction, childhood type."

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Exposure to an over the counter drug called "thalidomide" to relieve morning sickness in pregnant women had a link to babies being born with serious malformation of the limbs and link to autism in numerous studies in the following years.

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Questioning the child's diphtheria- pertussis- tentanus vaccine and the association with autism.

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In the DSM-II they described autism as "schizophrenia, childhood type" and cited it as "autistic, atypical, and withdrawn behavior," "general unevenness" and "failure to develop identity separate from the mother's"

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Spitzer wanted to ground his new research by forming 25 committees to develop descriptions of each disorder. He favored psychiatrists who saw themselves as scientist rather than doctors. They became known as DOPs : data- oriented people.

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DSM-III published with an additional 27 new disorders and 73 pages of descriptions of its taxonomy of misery.

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Eric Schopler and his colleagues came up with the Child Autism Rating Scale (CARS) which distinguished autism from other forms of developmental delay, such as intellectual disability. This new development allowed children to be scored on a seven point continuum along with other dimensions, communication, and interactions.At this point, autism is entering mainstream and awareness is picking up.

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The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed and set up a federal vaccine injury compensation program and created a federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System to enable public- health authorities and consumers to track emerging problems with immunization programs nationwide.

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Cases of autism in the Family Fund database went up by 22% on average each year.

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Research into correlation of vaccines of the measles virus and Crohn's disease or others "behavioral symptoms" of autism.

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Doctors blamed MMR for triggering an epidemic of autism, framed by the vaccine.

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Researchers writing for "Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine" performed a systematic meta- analysis of a dozen studies and concluded "The current literature does not suggest an association between ASD and MMR vaccine. The consequences of the vaccine were not real nor true.