An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn t know he had Asperger s syndrome until he became a man. In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called lucid and illuminating. Three years later, at the age of 45, he was diagnosed with Asperger s syndrome an autistic disorder characterized by often superior intellectual abilities but also by obsessive behavior, ineffective communication, and social awkwardness. In a personal chronicle that is by turns hilarious and...
An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn t know he had Asperger s syndrome until he became a man. In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize fo...