First seen as a medical
oddity, autism has a fascinating and troubling story.
Bernice
Landry takes us from the heyday of psychoanalysis, to the
blame-the-mother era, the rise of the activist parent, and the decoding
of the dark secrets of our genes. For Rain Man it was numbers; for
Darius
McCollum, it was the New York City subway. Meet the man whose
compulsion to steal trains had cost him years in jail long before he
ever heard about autism. Part 2 airs Friday, July 31.