Donald Gray Triplett was an American known for being the first person diagnosed with autism. He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner, and was labeled as “Case 1”.

Donald Triplett’s net worth at the time of death

Triplett’s net worth is $1-5 Million at the age of 86 years old.

Donald could speak and mimic words, but the mimicry appeared to overtake meaning. Most often, he merely echoed what he had heard someone else say. For a time, for example, he went about pronouncing the words “trumpet vine” and “chrysanthemum” over and over, as well as the phrase: “I could put a little comma.”

But his intellectual gifts did not save him from being put in an institution. It was the doctor’s order. It was always that way, in that era, for children who strayed as far from “normal” as Donald did. The routine prescription for parents was to try to forget the child and move forward with their lives. In mid-1937, Beamon and Mary complied with the order. Donald, three years old, was sent away.

But they did not forget him. They visited monthly, probably debating each time they began the long drive home to Forest whether they should just take him back with them after one of these visits.