Read a Book Written By an Autistic!
There's plenty of literature about autism circulating throughout many sources. Why not pick something written by an autistic? Especially if you desire to capture a feel for the essence and reality of autism verses assumptions pertaining to biased clinical studies. Need a place to start? Here's a few suggestions:
1. Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone by Douglas Biklen, et al.
2. Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes
3. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
4. Nobody Nowhere: the Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic by Donna Williams
5. How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Visit your local library, bookseller, or online source to obtain a copy of the above mentioned titles. Then give yourself a pat on the back!
This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible.
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B F Harmony, ME @ 05:51PM PT Mar 15
I read look me in the Eye.... he created the burning guitar effect for Ace Frehley of KISS
Florence Lenhard Chester, NY @ 01:46PM PT Mar 08
Hi, This is to update my report about the books by autistics that I read. Dawn Prince-Hughes starts life with autism, a somewhat dysfunctional family who choose to live in the forest. When Dawn journeys to the big city she becomes easily victimized, but even here, as well as in the forest, she is a major, big time survivor. A yearning to visit the zoo brings her into contact (separated by glass) with gorillas. Immediatly she recognizes a kinship and an avoidant way of interacting with others that she begins to understand and mimic. Her life begins to change radically, but I don't want to tell any more. You must read if you haven't.
Robison's book called Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers, also eminantly readable, offers a clearer look, I think, about Aspergers Syndrome. Interestingly his book and Dawn's end with the writers own entry into a marriage, yet there are many working autistic individuals who easily write autistics off as being able for form functioning, even happy, unions and families with non-autistics.
Finallly, I read a book that is poetry as well as an amazing story of a mother and her profoundly autistic disabled son. It is he who tells his story beginning with his earliest relationship with a mirror in his room. It ends when he is 19 years old, profoundly autistic, essentially unable to speak and limited in the intensity of relating to even a few others, yet he has published four or more books. He is a poet. He has that gift. READ it.
Florence Lenhard Chester, NY @ 11:36AM PT Jan 31
I am reading "SomebodySomewhere" also by Donna Williams. This covers the period from when she has dropped of the book listed above at a potential publisher, she leaves England and returns to Australia. She is an amazing writer, gifted. I highly recommend reading her writing. Meanwhile, I have placed an order for other books on the list with my local library. (note: I do not know how to underline these book titles, I tried the underline key with Shift)
Norah vd Stel Leiden, Netherlands @ 04:10AM PT Jan 27
I really liked 'Women from Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism'. It's by multiple people, with Jean Kearns Miller as editor.
Elesia Ashkenazy Portland, OR @ 09:22PM PT Jan 26
Pledge fulfilled Jan 20!
Thank you Florence!
Florence Lenhard Chester, NY @ 08:10PM PT Jan 26
Two of my daughter-in-law's nephews are autistic. I will try to enlist her, her mom, and her brother and his wife in this project. I'd do it by email, but I am computer dysfunctional in updating my address book etc. etc. so I'll call them, and use snail mail.
Meanwhile, best wishes in this project.
Florence Lenhard
Elesia Ashkenazy Portland, OR @ 12:14PM PT Jan 20
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