Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman)
Editorial Reviews
Laura Fransella, Times Educational Supplement, 23 April 1999
Edgar Schneider is a highly articulate former mathematician and computer programmer. He discovered his autism in middle age, after being misdiagnosed as schizophrenic for many years. Schneider's detailed and dispassionate account of his autism deserves a wide audience. He explains his life as an emotional loner, his need to intellectualise feelings such as love in order to experience them, and his use of his self-knowledge to help others in a way which will inform and enlighten those concerned with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. He describes the implications of his emotional deficit, comparing it to a missing faculty such as blindness. It is a moving and inspiring book. By the end, One understands a great deal more about Schneider's "country".
Book Description
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers) Author's biography of his struggles through life with relationships ps, a high pain threshold, lack of concentration, and a highly absorbant intelligence. After being diagnosed with schizophrenia, he discovers he is a high-functioning autistic. For consumers with autism, Asperger's Syndrome or ADD, their families, and those working with them. Softcover.
Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman)
Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman),Edgar Schneider,Jessica Kingsley Publishers,1853027243,Autism,Patients,General,Handicapped,Handicapped,Mental Illness,Patients,Biography/Autibiography,Autistic children,Memoirs,Schizophrenia,Diagnosis
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