In February 2005, David Smukler, writing in the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities' journal "Mental Retardation", noted that back in the mid-1990s some sceptics had a poorly defined understanding of the autism spectrum: "...autistic people such as Donna Williams and Temple Grandin started to publish first-person accounts that described their lives as autistic people living in an often-inhospitable nonautistic world.