Women from Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism by Jean Kearns Miller

Women from Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism by Jean Kearns Miller

Mention the word autism and the room suddenly turns silent. It s the dreaded A word. People s attention turns to late night TV public service ads declaring that autistic children are imprisoned by autism and need curing at all cost. Recent autobiographies have helped dispel this dire description by suggesting that autism is not a prison and that the door is unlocked and you re free to come in. Women from Another Planet? moves beyond these autistic life stories in important ways. It s a collection of stories and conversations, all of them by women on the autism spectrum who speak candidly, insightfully, and often engagingly about both their gender in terms of their autism and their autism in terms of their gender. It is written not just for parents and professionals, like the other works, but also to those women still searching for ways to understand the unnamed difference they live with, as well as the wider audience of discerning readers. If you enter the unlocked door of these Women from Another Planet? you may end up with a question mark or two about your planet. Is normalcy really all it s cracked up to be?

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ISBN 13	9781410734310
ISBN 10	1410734315
Title	Women from Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism
Author	Jean Kearns Miller
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	AuthorHouse
Year published	2003-09-02
Number of pages	292
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