Jonathan Mitchell (writer)
Jonathan Mitchell (born September 7, 1955) is an American author and autistic blogger who writes about autism including the neuroscience of the disorder and neurodiversity movement. His novel The Mu Rhythm Bluff is about a 49-year-old autistic man who undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation. Biography Mitchell was born in 1955 and at the age of 12, he was diagnosed with autism. He attended psychoanalytic therapy as a child. He also attended mainstream and special education schools facing expulsion and being bullied. Mitchell has done data entry jobs but was fired many times for his behavior. After retiring at 51 years old, he attempted to get SSDI but was not successful. He lives in Los Angeles and is supported by his parents. Mitchell has volunteered in scientific research for autism and has served as an experimental subject to Eric Courchesne. Mitchell claims that having autism has prevented him from having a girlfriend or making a living. Advocacy Mitchell has been described by Newsweek as an extremely controversial voice in the autism blogosphere for wanting a cure and discussing the need to consider the longer-term effects of autism. Mitchell has been criticized by other autism/autistic bloggers for his pro-cure stance. In 2015, during