"Grunya Sukhareva published her findings about the children in two German papers — one in 1926, about the boys, and a 1927 paper about the girls — in which she stated that the cases represented a previously unrecognized group of disorders. Today, these case studies read as descriptions of children with autism"

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/the-new-history-of-autism-part-i/