A Mother Before a Pioneer Dr Lorna Wing did not set out to revolutionise autism research. Like many transformative figures in science, her journey began not in theory, but in lived experience. When her daughter Susie was born in 1956 and later diagnosed with severe autism at the age of three, the landscape was desolate—clinically, socially, and emotionally. Despite years of medical training, Lorna and her husband John, both psychiatrists, knew almost nothing about autism when