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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816033103321

Autore

Schneider Edgar <1932->

Titolo

Discovering my autism [[electronic resource] ] : apologia pro vita sua (with apologies to Cardinal Newman) / / Edgar Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley, 1999

ISBN

1-280-44704-4

9786610447046

1-84642-179-9

1-4175-5287-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/82/0092

B

Soggetti

Autistic people

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

COVER -- Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (with Apologies to Cardinal Newman) -- Contents -- Prologue -- The Determining Time Period -- Aftermath -- Resolution, of a Sort -- Suspicions -- A Revelation -- Recap of a Terrible Period -- Correlating my Past Life -- An Interesting Aside -- My Tastes -- What I Mean by the Word 'Love' -- A Missing Faculty -- Two Perilous Characteristics -- Can 'Heartless' Pity be Real? -- Grief -- Death and the Afterlife -- Solitude and Loneliness -- Learning -- Values that were Manifested During Military Service -- Interactions with Others -- Art as an Early Outlet -- Religion -- Disclaimers about Religion -- A Perhaps Dangerous Characteristic -- The Upshot of this Self-Discovery -- Is a Future Close Relationship Possible? -- Waxing Philosophical about 'Love' Among the Non-Autistic -- The Emotional Deficit -- Self-Compensating? -- Our Own Country -- Retrospect -- What I have Tried to do Here -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Edgar Schneider is believed to be a high-functioning autistic with attention deficit disorder. In this book he reflects on his experiences and memories of his childhood and teenage years as a clever and artistic loner. He explains how in order to experience 'emotions' such



as grief, sympathy or desire, he must intellectualise or aestheticise them.