LEADER 02910nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910816033103321 005 20240410163720.0 010 $a1-280-44704-4 010 $a9786610447046 010 $a1-84642-179-9 010 $a1-4175-5287-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002200 035 $a(OCoLC)228040048 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary5004017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139770 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151254 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139770 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017317 035 $a(PQKB)10831474 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3015838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3015838 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5004017 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44704 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002200 100 $a19981104d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiscovering my autism $eapologia pro vita sua (with apologies to Cardinal Newman) /$fEdgar Schneider 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aPhiladelphia $cJessica Kingsley$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (126 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-85302-724-3 327 $aCOVER -- 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. 330 $aEdgar 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. 606 $aAutistic people$vBiography 615 0$aAutistic people 676 $a616.89/82/0092 676 $aB 700 $aSchneider$b Edgar$f1932-$01630934 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816033103321 996 $aDiscovering my autism$94088840 997 $aUNINA