Opinion | Don’t Blame Autism for Newtown (Published 2012)

LAST Wednesday night I listened to Andrew Solomon, the author of the extraordinary new book “Far From the Tree,” talk about the frequency of filicide in families affected by autism. Two days later, I watched the news media attempt to explain a matricide and a horrific mass murder in terms of the killer’s supposed autism. It began as insinuation, but quickly flowered into outright declaration. Word