Today, even as controversy surrounds the revised classification of autism in the latest version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the quirky yet remarkably perceptive points of view of autistic narrators have become increasingly familiar in every category of fiction, from young adult to science fiction to popular and literary fiction.
This powerful memoir is a remarkably perceptive exploration of identity – of blood, language, religion and land – by someone intensely aware of the forces shaping European history and politics.
A one-time Communist, his anti-totalitarian work, "L'Homme Révolté" ("The Rebel"), published in 1951, was remarkably perceptive about the evils of Stalinism.
Again, art can do the same: Artists have produced remarkably perceptive critiques of design over the years.
She is perhaps vaguely recalled, by literature students at least, for her review of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage in 1918 in which she coined the literary version of the phrase "stream of consciousness", or alternatively her remarkably perceptive early review of TS Eliot's "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock".
Mr. Perry has been remarkably perceptive about the political winds in Texas; think of his early and strong shift to federalism in front of the Tea Party crowds in Texas on tax day in April 2009.
In the past decade, developmental psychologists have shown that babies are remarkably perceptive about the social world around them.
He was also remarkably perceptive, correctly deducing that the captain of a state-of-the art Soviet submarine planned to defect to the West, not attack it.
Kokoschka's "Children Playing" (pictured above) of 1909, a remarkably perceptive work, featured prominently in the Nazis' "Degenerate Art" exhibit of 1937.
He is a brilliant watcher, an acutely sophisticated observer of the tech space, a remarkably perceptive businessman who doesn't miss a trick.
His verdicts, moreover, remain freshly minted and remarkably perceptive, however much he crams them into the Procrustean bed of his analytical framework.
