Bibliograph

Be different, adventures of a free-range aspergian : with practical advice for aspergians, misfits, families & teachers, John Elder Robison

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Be different, adventures of a free-range aspergian : with practical advice for aspergians, misfits, families & teachers, John Elder Robison

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Be different

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

662578607

Responsibility statement

John Elder Robison

Sub title

adventures of a free-range aspergian : with practical advice for aspergians, misfits, families & teachers

Summary

All of a sudden, the concept of "people like me" took on a whole new meaning. Moments before, I'd have described myself as a middle- aged white male. I was a successful business owner, a husband, and a father. Now I was a guy with Asperger's. I was autistic. Everything else seemed secondary to that new facet of me. This must be how it feels when you find you have cancer, I thought. I was still the same guy I had been the day before. I didn't feel sick. Yet somehow, in a matter of seconds, my diagnosis had come to dominate my self-image

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