Private Thoughts in Public Language
The burgeoning autism narrative may reflect the pathology of our era April 2009
Douglas Coupland clearly suffers from hyper artistic activity disorder, but he prefers to say, at least in interviews, that he is mildly autistic—not that the two diagnoses can’t dwell in the same body. His artwork is increasingly everywhere, for example in Toronto at the intersection of Bathurst and Lake Shore Boulevard. Today that is the site of frantic condo…