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Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider (Hardcover)

By: Tim Page (Author)


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"[Page's] book...is a jostling trip. Lists of musical compositions, book titles and authors, as well as excruciating memories of teenage exploits, some of them horrific, are recounted in detail thanks to the author's astonishing recall of minutiae, one of the defining aspects of an Aspie....In the midst of this nonstop journey, the wordsmithing is nimble and lyrical, well-tuned by a writer with a musician's ear."

"In fascinatingly precise detail and often to pricelessly funny effect, [Page] describes ways in which his efforts to feign normalcy have backfired....With seemingly effortless grace this book moves back and forth between Mr. Page's very private idiosyncrasies and those of the wider culture in which he came of age."

Publisher's note

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes his gifted but troubled youth and career while unknowingly affected by Asperger's syndrome, in a full-length account based on his popular New Yorker essay that discusses the disparity between his aptitude and grades and his high-functioning career in spite of persistent social challenges.

In this captivating memoir, Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Page writes about growing up gifted and unknowingly suffering from Asperger's syndrome, expanding on a tremendously popular essay he wrote for "The New Yorker."
In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of the" Washington Post," work that the Pulitzer board called "lucid and illuminating." Three years later, at the age of forty-five, he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome-an autistic disorder characterized by often superior intellectual abilities but also by obsessive behavior, ineffective communication, and social awkwardness.
Now, in a personal chronicle that is both hilarious and heartbreaking, Page tells his early story through the prism of newfound clarity. Here is the tale of a boy who was writing and directing his own silent films at the age of twelve, yet lacked the coordination to participate in the simplest childhood games. It is the story of a child who was regularly described as a genius, but was unable to pass elementary school math and science. And it is the triumphant account of a disadvantaged boy who grew into a high-functioning, highly successful adult-perhaps not despite his Asperger's but because of it, as Tim believes.
A poignant portrait of a lifelong search for understanding, "Parallel Play" provides a unique perspective on Asperger's and the well of creativity that can spring forth as a result of the condition.

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Nowadays Tim Page would be diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and people would know what to make of him, but as a child he was labeled as a "genius" (by his parents), a weirdo (by his peers), or as socially dysfunctional (by his teachers). Wildly eccentric, a lover of maps who could not tell left from right, a bed-wetter who considered himself superior to his peers and most adults, Tim Page lived a strange and solitary existence, delighting in his vivid imaginary world, while raging against the confusion of "normal" life--a life further complicated by the cornucopia of medications he was given and his occasional shock treatments. His memoir PARALLEL PLAY is an intimate, lighthearted, humorous, and self-deprecating look inside his atypical mind. It should be read by anyone who knows someone with Aspergers or, indeed, by anyone seeking to understand the marvelous strangeness of the human experience.



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