A discussion of the different ways autistic children have been targets of violence throughout history. 

Sources:

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

In a Different Key by John Donvan and Karen Zucker

Asperger's Children by Edith Sheffer

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

Changelings by D.L. Ashliman

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/changeling.html

The Rise and Decline of Psychiatric Hydrotherapy

http://psych-history.weill.cornell.edu/osk_die_lib/hydrotherapy/default.htm

Churchill and Eugenics by Sir Martin Gilbert

https://web.archive.org/web/20131215071541/http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/594-churchill-and-eugenics

Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25308/25308-h/25308-h.htm

Is ABA Therapy Really "Dog Training For Children"? A Professional Dog Trainer Weighs In

https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/27/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in/

Fake autism treatments show the lengths parents will go to “cure” their kids

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/19/18684109/autism-vaccines-treatment-cure-bleach

The fake cures for autism that can prove deadly

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/fake-cures-autism-prove-deadly

FDA Begs Public to Please Stop Drinking Bleach

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/master-mineral-solution-mms-fda-warning-bleach-871774/

Chelation therapy offers small, if any, benefit for heart disease

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/chelation-therapy-offers-small-if-any-benefit-for-heart-disease-201303266030

School Shocks Students With Disabilities. The FDA Is Moving To Ban The Practice

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/687636057/massachusetts-school-defends-use-of-electric-shock-treatments

Mom says staffers abused special needs son

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/mom-says-staffers-abused-special-needs-son/326998611

Video shows off-duty Chicago police officer shooting unarmed autistic man

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/17/video-shows-chicago-police-officer-shoot-unarmed-autistic-man

Disability Day of Mourning

https://disability-memorial.org/