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Finding a Different Kind of Normal

Misadventures With Asperger Syndrome
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Jeanette Purkis spent their early life reacting violently against their feelings of embarrassment, anger and confusion about their ‘difference' from other people. Jeanette was unaware until well into adulthood that everything they found difficult, including their lack of success in forming relationships, could be a result of having Asperger Syndrome.  Used to being a misfit from a very young age, Jeanette found that being a member of a group in which they had a label – Jeanette the Communist; Jeanette, Enemy of the State; Jeanette the convict; Jeanette the drug addict – gave them a sense of order they could depend on, particularly in prison, where each day had a set routine and the inmates accepted them because of their rebel attitude. Finally diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at the age of 20, the author only began to accept their diagnosis some years later when they felt for the first time that they might learn to cope with being Jeanette.  Jeanette's remarkable life and their journey towards finding a different kind of normal is compelling and inspiring reading for people with autism spectrum disorders, and those living or working with them.
1. Being in the world but not of it. 2. Searching for the rules. 3. Learning which way is left. 4. Acting, independently. 5. Becoming the enemy. 6. Losing friends and gaining contacts. 7. Watching the end of the world. 8. Dying and surviving. 9. Educating the mad. 10. Forgetting the script.
This powerful autobiography is wrtiten without embellishment to provide an open and frank look at the author's life. Her loneliness, confusion and vulnerability whilst growing up are apparent as, having not fitted in from a young age, she adopts a series of different indentities from Christian to Communist, criminal and drug addict before being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and then finally coming to terms with who she is.
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