In a Different Key: The Story of Autism (94 page)

CHAPTER 46: A HAPPY MAN

had not heard before:
Donald’s first media contact from outside Mississippi was with French documentarian Anne Georget, who featured him in her 2000 French-language film
Histoire, histoires d’autisme
. The film had no showing in Forest.

“I wish myself luck”
:
Donald Triplett shared his yearbook and photographs with the authors.

allow no harm:
Recollections about Donald Triplett’s later years are from author interviews with Donald and Oliver Triplett, Celeste Slay, and Gene Walker.

was befriended by:
Author interview with Reverend Brister Ware.

“interest in the opposite sex”:
Leo Kanner, “Follow-up Study of Eleven Autistic Children Originally Reported in 1943,”
Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia
1, no. 2 (1971): 119–45.

“I wish I knew what his inner feelings”:
Ibid., 122.

“It was rather expected”:
Donald Triplett interview.

EPILOGUE

A 2013 study found:
Anne Roux, Kristy Anderson, Paul Shattuck, and Benjamin Cooper, “Postsecondary Employment Experiences Among Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder,”
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
52, no 9 (2013): 931-39.

more than half had never:
Shattuck et al., “Postsecondary Employment Experiences.”

Eight out of ten:
Kristy Anderson, Paul Shattuck, Benjamin Cooper, Anne Roux, and Mary Wagner, “Prevalence and Correlates of Postsecondary Residential Status Among Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder,”
Autism
8, no. 5 (2014).

A Danish father named:
More information about Thorkil Sonne and his organization, the Specialists, can be found on his website at
http://specialistpeople.com/
.

In late 2015, a New York:
More information about New York Collaborates for Autism launch of the Neighborhood Network of New York Community Living Program can be found on the organization’s website at
http://nyc4a.org/
.

In 2013, Connie and Harvey:
More information on California’s Self Determination Program can be found on California’s Department of Developmental Services website at
http://www.dds.ca.gov/sdp/
.

in 2014, the College of William and Mary:
More information on John Elder Robison and the work he has begun at William and Mary College can be found on William and Mary’s website at
https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2013/neurodiversity-advocate-robison-to-teach,-consult-at-wm123.php
.

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