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Suggested reading on autism, mysteries and personal accounts featuring people with disabilities, and more.
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Grandin, Temple Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism Temple Grandin describes how her perception of the world was shaped by autism, including accounts of both the struggles of her early years and her fascinating gifts of visual thinking and the ability to empathize with animals. 1995 | ||||
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Karasik, Judy The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family Half memoir, half graphic novel, this ambitious work by a brother and sister is a moving portrait of one family's history, a wonder of innovative storytelling, and a window into the world of living with autism. 2003 | ||||
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Kephart, Beth A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage For Beth Kephart's son, the diagnosis was "pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified" - a broad spectrum of difficulties, including autistic features. As the author and her husband discover, all that label really means is that their son Jeremy is "different in a million wonderful ways, and also different in ways that need our help". With the help of passionate parental involvement and the kindness of a few open hearts, Jeremy slowly emerges from a world of obsessive play rituals, atypical language constructions, endless pacing, and lonely frustrations. Triumphantly, he begins to engage others, describe his thoughts and passions, build essential friendships. Ultimately this is a story of the shallowness of medical labels compared to a child's courage and a mother's love. 1998 | ||||
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LaSalle, Barbara Finding Ben: A Mother's Journey Through the Maze of Asperger's Barbara LaSalle's first son, Ben, was an extraordinarily gifted child. For the first few years of his life, he amazed his mother with his brilliance and creativity, speaking in full sentences before age one and reading competently by age two. Yet lurking beneath this boy genius's amazing abilities were a crippling social aloofness and a fear of change. . . . For years, she remained unaware that Ben suffered from Asperger's Syndrome -- the "little grownup" disorder -- a neurological condition considered a high-functioning form of autism. In this frank, beautifully written account, Barbara LaSalle reveals what it's really like to parent a child with a neurological disorder, communicating her son's unique perception of the world while describing her own struggle to love an "unpresentable" son. . . . She paints a powerfully honest portrait of how a mother's love can turn into bitterness at having to raise a special-needs child and how, by opening herself to the wisdom of others, she can at last learn to love her child -- and herself -- once again. [Book jacket] 2003 | ||||
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Sacks, Oliver W An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Profiles seven neurological patients, including "a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident ... and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior." 1995 Appears on the following book lists:
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Simon, Rachel Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey Rachel Simon's sister, Beth, is a woman with mental retardation who lives with spirit and joy. She spends most of her days riding the city buses. One day she asks her sister, Rachel, to accompany her for a year. This is an account of that year and what Rachels learns from her sister, the bus drivers and passengers, as well as a memoir of the sisters' difficult childhood and, on another level, an interesting discussion of how to balance the rights of vulnerable adults to live independently with the desire and obligation of family members and others to ensure their safety and a high quality of life. 2002 Appears on the following book lists:
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