TW: Abuse, eugenics, death, murder, experimentation, (all these on children), vomit, Holocaust, antisemitism, ableism

Note: this review comes from an autistic person

This book touched on many of the cases and horrible treatments of disabled people that was also covered in the book "Hitlers forgotten Victims" by Suzzane E. Evens. However, while the latter didn't mention Asperger or Autism, this book has a bigger focus on that, as well as the horrendous eugenics of the nazi party. Both are excellent to read together. This book however was not (from what I can find) written by an autistic person but rather Edith Sheffer has an autistic child. This always sets off my red flag radar, however she seems to navigate everything with care and understanding. There is a bit of a messy conclusion on "what is autism" and how perhaps medical science will evolve to more clinically catagotize the differing aspects into more concise catagories, but then there is a swing towards the dangers of labels, and honestly I don't really know what the message was meant to be there. I don't like non-autistic people trying to come into the conversation of how a group they are not a part of should view labels, but that aside it was a really important and heartbreaking read. Definitely make sure you have the spoons for this. The tldr though? Hans Asperger was responsible for death and furthering eugenics and is not the autism hero history has painted him to be.