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Classes started at the college where I teach last Wednesday, so I knew it would be a busy week. As the posts below suggest, the past week turned out to be far busier, and intenser, and more emotionally wrenching, than I had bargained for.
Wishing the family of Katie McCarron much peace: Katie will be remembered.
Autism […]
“It is a possession for all time, not a competition piece to be heard for the moment, that has been composed.”
So writes Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian, about his account of The Peloponnesian War. Considering that he was writing in the fifth century B.C., and about events taking place from 431-411 B.C., Thucydides was right […]
They have all written books about autism that have been published this year, as have many others, two being Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker and Kiara Brinkman’s novel, Up High in the Trees, which is not explicitly about autism, but which is a finely crafted portrait of one “quirky” […]
Money, books, finches, the calculus of parenthood, and a sort of fashion statement: How does it all add up?
Who Pays For What? (2)Costs for special education are rising twice as fast for regular education in Massachusetts.
Two New Autism BooksTwo recently published autism books are selling fast, Jenny McCarthy’s Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in […]
Two recently published autism books are #16 and #17 in Amazon.com rankings as of the writing of this post, Jenny McCarthy’s Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s. McCarthy’s book (which is also #4 on the New York Times Bestseller […]
Look Me in the Eye: An Aspergian Book Author Writes About Books, Asperger’s, Autism, and Life, John Elder Robison’s memoir of growing up with Asperger’s (before knowing that he had Asperger’s), appears in bookstores today and the author will be at the Union Square Barnes and Noble in New York City tonight at 7pm. I […]
“Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s” (John Elder Robison), John Elder Robison’s memoir of growing up with Asperger’s (before knowing that he had Asperger’s), appears in bookstores September 25. In the meantime, the July 31st Library Journal interviews the author; here are some of his Robison’s views on Asperger’s as a “positive […]
I am more than looking forward to reading Up High in the Trees (and here is chapter 1), the recently published novel by Kiara Brinkman. It has been suggested that tha 8-year-old narrator, Sebby, is on the autism spectrum: Brinkman’s webpage describes him as an “unusual little boy” and novelist Cristina Garcia refers to him […]
I am borrowing that title—-Up High in the Trees is the title of a just-published novel by Kiara Brinkman. The main character is 8-year-old Sebby who, after the death of his pregnant mother, goes with his father to the family summerhouse; described as being on the autism spectrum, Sebby writes letters to his favorite teacher […]
While I was sitting here in New Jersey (not near Northvale, but just up the hill from the New Jersey State Auto Auction on Sip Avenue off of Route 1 & 9, just past the steel-grid shadows of the Pulaski Skyway, the long horizontal line on this Flash Earth map), my fine friend McEwen was […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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