What I Want to Talk About : How Autistic Special Interests Shape a Life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wharmby, Pete, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autistic people.

Hobbies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers Library , 2022.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

In What I Want to Talk About popular autism advocate Pete Wharmby takes readers on a journey through his special interests, illuminating the challenges of autistic experience along the way. Funny, revealing, celebratory and powerful in equal measure, this is a book that will resonate with many, and which should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand autism with more accuracy and empathy.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter one: self, identity, diagnosis and LEGO

Chapter two: my family and other dinosaurs

Chapter three: set difficulty to hard

Chapter four: come together

Chapter five: war games

Chapter six: building my world

Chapter seven: heroes and villains

Chapter eight: nearer my god to thee

Epilogue.

ISBN:

9781805016205

1805016202

9781787758285

1787758281

OCLC:

1458360400