- Category: Books » Psychology » Psychopathology - Autism
- Format: Hardcover Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
- Publisher: Doubleday Books
- Number of Pages: 256
- ISBN: 0385525621
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113130845
- Release Date: September 8, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #58237 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #694 in Psychology (See Top 100 Psychology Bestsellers)
- #11 in Psychopathology - Autism (See Top 100 Psychopathology - Autism Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider" by Tim Page to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider"Browse more products related to "Tim Page"Review"[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 noteA 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." AnnotationNowadays 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. If You Enjoy "Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider (Hardcover)" by Tim Page (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Psychopathology - Autism Bestsellers
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