Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
Everyone in Autismland has a story: When did the diagnosis come and how? What did you do? How is she or he doing? How did this happens?
DJ Savarese tell his own story at the end of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption. Ralph Savarese, DJ’s father, is the name on the cover; certainly DJ and his story inform every sentence of the book. The subtitle notes that Reasonable People is “On the Meaning of Family and the Politics of Neurological Difference,” and Savarese writes forcefully and always passionately about “what is a family” in our early 21st century American society, about the difference DJ and kids and people like him make, about neurodiversity.
Reasonable People will be published in April of 2007; in the meantime, you can visit the website for Reasonable People at reasonable-people.com, where you will find a link to a speech DJ gave at the Disability Rights Conference in Syracuse, his ‘I Have a Dream…’ Speech.
Previous Autism Vox posts on Reasonable People are on the ‘black hole of autism, revisited and DJ’s Prairie Dogs poem.
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2 opinions for Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
Daisy
Nov 23, 2006 at 12:24 pm
This sounds very interesting. Remind me in April to get a copy of this book!
Kristina Chew, PhD
Nov 23, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Will do for sure—–Savarese’s wife is writing about inclusion for a non-speaking child in a classroom with typical peers.
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