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“Refrigerator parents” are seen as

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The terms refrigerator mother and refrigerator parents were coined around 1950 as a label for mothers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. When Leo Kanner first identified autism in 1943, he noted the lack of warmth among the parents of autistic children.

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