Autism’s First Child

Tracing the history of autism through the first person ever diagnosed, and the rural community that helped raise him.

Named “Case 1” in 1943, Donald Triplett was in and out of an institution, and spent time with history’s most important child psychiatrist, by the time he was five.

Now 88, Donald has lived a full and happy life in Forest, Mississippi.

What can his story teach us about creating a better world for those who are “different”?

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Core Team:

Hosts: Caren Zucker, John Donvan

Scoring, mixing, mastering, sound design: Alex Richey

Story editors: Matt Riddle, Alex French

Original music composition: Elise McCoy

Voice acting: Lui Carlos?, Missy Richey 

Executive producers: Virginia Prescott, Brandon Barr, L.C. Crowley, Jason English

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