Casto, who lived most of his life in unimaginable institutional conditions, did finally gain some peace outside those walls before he died in 1997. Donvan and Zucker use his experiences to personalize the decades-long arc that institutionalization followed from inevitable and horrific to a potentially reasonable but rare option for autistic people. Casto, who was diagnosed with autism in his later years, was institutionalized at a very young age. One lesser-known story is the especially harrowing life of Archie Casto, born in 1914. Donvan, an ABC correspondent, and Zucker, a TV producer whose oldest son has autism, narrate the lives of a few other autistic people through the 20th century, including the ubiquitous Grandin.
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