The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

In this unique look into history and psychology, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Arguing that the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking skills essential to our species's inventiveness, this book shows how autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. Ultimately a call to consider how society treats those who think differently, this book urges us to support and celebrate autistic people through both disability and triumph and everything in between - or else, it may seem, our society could suffer for it.

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