Wired-Up Wrong - Asperger Syndrome, 'Normal', and Me

ISBN-13: 9781847532206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 228 str.

Shepherd Neil

Opis

Growing up is never easy but whats it like if youre different? Actually, whats it like if youre different but you dont know that youre different? Having led what he thought was a normal life for 31 years, our plucky heros world was thrown into confusion when he was diagnosed with something called Asperger Syndrome. But people dont catch Asperger Syndrome so where did it come from? Was it there all along and not noticed? Set against the backdrop of the North East of England in the 70s and 80s, and having to cope with life with a disabled father as well as facing the everyday challenges that most people take for granted, this is the insiders view of one boys life with AS - from the safety of make-believe worlds to the terrifying depths of suicide, self-harming, and isolation. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes surreal, but never dull, this is the story of a little boys struggle to not only grow up and survive in the world, but to find out what he truly was.