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ISBN Number: 9781582343679
Subtitle: Adventures in Autism
Author: Collins, Paul
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Location: New York
Subject: History
Subject: Children with Special Needs
Subject: Pediatrics
Subject: Autistic children
Subject: Autism in children
Subject: Caregivers
Subject: History
Edition Number: 1st U.S. ed.
Series Volume: 1208
Publication Date: April 2004
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 245
Book Size: 8.46x5.76x1.00 in. .89 lbs.
When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world.
In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins's travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author's own household.
Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology - a meditation on what "normal" is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.
Review:
"This is a smart, compassionate study of autists — 'the ultimate square pegs' — and how they see the world, darkly, through the thickets of their own genius." Publishers Weekly
Synopsis:
Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology — a meditation on what "normal" is, and how human genius comes in strange and wondrous forms.
