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Finding a different kind of normal : misadventures with Asperger syndrome / Jeanette Purkis ; foreword by Donna Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purkis, Yenn, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asperger's syndrome--Patients--Biography.
- Asperger's syndrome.
- Purkis, Yenn, 1974-.
- Purkis, Yenn.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jeanette Purkis spent her early life reacting violently against feelings of embarrassment, anger and confusion about her 'difference' from other people. She was unaware until adulthood that this could be a result of having Asperger Syndrome. Jeanette's remarkable life and her journey towards finding a different kind of normal is inspiring reading.
- Contents:
- Being in the world but not of it
- Searching for the rules
- Learning which way is left
- Acting, independently
- Becoming the enemy
- Losing friends and gaining contacts
- Watching the end of the world
- Dying and surviving
- Educating the mad
- Forgetting the script.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610566549
- 9781280566370
- 128056637X
- 9781846424694
- 1846424690
- OCLC:
- 133162376
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