#also I think this post isn’t gonna show up in tags cause j mention nazism when talking about a Jewish doctor who’s work was stolen

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Georg Frankl appreciation post

Frankl and his fiance Anni Weiss worked on research in the childrens ward in the Vienna university clinic in the 1920s. They were both Jewish and were pushed out in the years before the Nazi takeover of Austria, leaving their positions open to Hans Asperger, who would go on to publish popular research on what he described as Autism, a term coined in the 1800s in reference to schizophrenia.

Frankl would go on to Baltimore, where his work was recognized by Leo Kanner, another Jew who had left Austria earlier in life. Kanner admired Frankl and his work, the terminology that Frankl coined being essential to Kanners own research, and planed to get it published before his own paper to make the influence clear. Unfortunately this didn’t happen, and Frankl remains unknown and unacknowledged in most conversations about Autism. Until recently, the fact that asperger and Kanner used the same term for the same condition within a year of each other had been considered a coincidence.

Frankl’s approach to treatment and care for people with Autism remains applicable and progressive today, maintaining that it was not an abnormality but a different mode of being, and that efforts could and should be made to communicate with individuals.

Sorry if that was stiff I went into essay mode, also some of that might be slightly off but eh, I just wanted to talk about him, here’s an article jt should be full access for anyone, though warning it is very jargony