Uta Frith has written, in her book "Autism: Explaining the Enigma," "Autism... does not go away... Nevertheless, autistic people can, and often do, compensate for their handicap to a remarkable degree.
Her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma was published in 1989 and its findings have been widely accepted (even though the refrigerator mother thesis hangs on for example, in France).
Dawson's inspiration came from Autism: Explaining the Enigma, in which Uta Frith claims the historical Wild Boy as the first documented autistic child - not a noble savage at all.
If you're in Paris and you want to see Ingres's 1862 masterpiece, "Le Bain Turc," or his earlier flirtation with neo-Classicism in "Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx," or the Greek Classicism that inspired it, you can take the Métro to an art museum called the Louvre.
Could the widening income gap explain the Keynesian enigma?
These findings are in accordance with evolutionary theory, which predicts that chronic pathogens with vertical transmission will become less virulent over time through coevolution, and could help explain the 'African Enigma,' or the exceptionally low incidence of gastric cancer in Africa despite very high rates of H. pylori infection (Holcombe 1992).
This biography of Nabokov's wife, protector and perfect reader unravels their 52-year marriage without trying to explain away the enigma that the couple present.
"I think our visitors find the live Bombe demonstrations are the star piece of a visit to Bletchley Park, so to be able to have something that explains how the Enigma worked and how the Bombe helped find the daily settings will be a really exciting opportunity for us," he said.
Tragedy must maintain a balance between the higher optimisms of religion or philosophy, or any other beliefs that tend to explain away the enigmas and afflictions of existence, on the one hand, and the pessimism that would reject the whole human experiment as valueless and futile on the other.
