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Making sense of the unfeasible : my life journey with Asperger Syndrome / Marc Fleisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleisher, Marc, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asperger's syndrome--Patients--Biography.
- Asperger's syndrome.
- Fleisher, Marc, 1967-.
- Fleisher, Marc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Before he received his diagnosis of AS, Marc Fleisher was considered mentally retarded; yet he went on to gain two maths degrees and to undertake post-graduate studies in maths. In this engaging story he relates how, supported by his family and by services for people with autism, he learnt to get the most out of life.
- Contents:
- Making Sense of the Unfeasible: My Life Journey with Asperger Syndrome; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Early Years: Years 0-9; Chapter 2 Crisis Time: Years 10-13; Chapter 3 Teenage Turmoil: Years 14 -18; Chapter 4 The Working Life: Years 18-21; Chapter 5 Deepening Struggles: Years 21-23; Chapter 6 The Apocalypse and New Beginnings: Years 24-26; Chapter 7 University Life I: Undergraduate Study; Chapter 8 University Life II: Postgraduate Study; Chapter 9 Years 31 to the Present Day; Appendix 1 What Can We Do to Make Progress?; Appendix 2 The Art of Joke Telling
- Appendix 3 The UniverseAppendix 4 Large Numbers; Appendix 5 Making Life Easy
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283904704
- 1283904705
- 9781417501069
- 1417501065
- 9781846424090
- 1846424097
- OCLC:
- 614555119
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