Autism’s First Child

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Note: Donald Triplett passed away on June 15, 2023. He was 89. Donald lived a full and happy life in Forest, Mississippi, and will be missed by many. This podcast is a tribute to his life and legacy. Autism's First Child traces the history of autism through the first person ever diagnosed, and the rural community that helped raise him. Named “Case 1” in 1943, Donald Triplett was in and out of an institution and spent time with history’s most important child psychiatrist by the time he was five. But he went on to live nearly nine happy decades in Forest, Mississippi. What can his st...

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Autism’s First Child

Episodes (8)

Dec 5, 2025 Introducing: What Happened in Nashville
May 7, 2025 Introducing: What Happened to Talina Zar
Dec 13, 2022 Bonus: John Donvan and Caren Zucker Discuss Their PBS Documentary

Autism’s First Child

Dec 5, 2025
4¾ minutes
3 MB

What Happened in Nashville is a deeply reported investigation into the sudden collapse of a Tennessee fertility clinic, and the patients caught in the fallout. When the Center for Reproductive Health shut down without warning, people lost access to their embryos, their treatments were abruptly cut off, and many were left scrambling to recover money, medical records, and time they couldn’t afford to lose. Through intimate conversations with the patients who lived through it, host Melissa Jeltsen reveals the emotional and physical toll of the clinic’s abrupt closure. But the story reaches far beyond a single clinic. The...

Autism’s First Child

Introducing: What Happened in Nashville

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