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Discovering My Autism
Apologia Pro Vita Sua with Apologies to Cardinal Newman
Taschenbuch von Edgar Schneider
Sprache: Englisch

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In 1978, under immense pressure at work, Edgar Schneider suffered a nervous breakdown. After convalescing, he returned to work, but within a few months he was again suffering from problems involving short-term memory and concentration. He was described as eccentric, tangential, illogical and hallucinatory; and diagnosed as schizophrenic.

Sixteen years later, the chance reading of an article on autistic savants alerted Schneider to the possibility that he had been misdiagnosed. This proved to be the case: he is believed to be a high-functioning autistic, with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Suddenly, many apparently paradoxical or inexplicable elements of Schneider's life made sense. He calls the discovery of his autism 'liberating'. In Discovering My Autism, he reflects on his experiences and his memories of his childhood and teenage years as a clever and artistic loner. He explains how in order to experience emotions such as grief or desire; he must intellectualize or aestheticise them. Dispassionately, he examines his difficulties with relationships, his high pain threshold, his lack of concentration and his highly absorbent intelligence, all of which are related to his autism. He also describes the pleasure he derives from art, music and literature; the importance to him of his religious beliefs; and his work with parents' support groups. As an account of how it feels to be a high-functioning autistic, this book should be read by parents of autistic children, professionals working with them and people with autism, Asperger's Syndrome, or ADHD themselves.

In 1978, under immense pressure at work, Edgar Schneider suffered a nervous breakdown. After convalescing, he returned to work, but within a few months he was again suffering from problems involving short-term memory and concentration. He was described as eccentric, tangential, illogical and hallucinatory; and diagnosed as schizophrenic.

Sixteen years later, the chance reading of an article on autistic savants alerted Schneider to the possibility that he had been misdiagnosed. This proved to be the case: he is believed to be a high-functioning autistic, with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Suddenly, many apparently paradoxical or inexplicable elements of Schneider's life made sense. He calls the discovery of his autism 'liberating'. In Discovering My Autism, he reflects on his experiences and his memories of his childhood and teenage years as a clever and artistic loner. He explains how in order to experience emotions such as grief or desire; he must intellectualize or aestheticise them. Dispassionately, he examines his difficulties with relationships, his high pain threshold, his lack of concentration and his highly absorbent intelligence, all of which are related to his autism. He also describes the pleasure he derives from art, music and literature; the importance to him of his religious beliefs; and his work with parents' support groups. As an account of how it feels to be a high-functioning autistic, this book should be read by parents of autistic children, professionals working with them and people with autism, Asperger's Syndrome, or ADHD themselves.

Über den Autor
Edgar Schneider was diagnosed as a high-functioning autistic in 1995. Formerly a mathematician and computer programmer, he now lives and continues to write in Florida.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue. 1. The determining time period. 2. Aftermath. 3. Resolution, of a sort. 4. Suspicions. 5. A revelation. 6. Recap of a terrible period. 7. Correlating my past life. 8. An interesting aside. 9. My tastes. 10. What I mean by the word `love'. 11. A missing faculty. 12. Two perilous characteristics. 13. Can `heartless' pity be real? 14. Grief. 15. Death and the afterlife. 16. Solitude and loneliness. 17. Learning. 18. Values manufested during military service. 19. Interactions with others. 20. Art as an early outlet. 21. Religion. 22. Disclaimers about religion. 23. A perhaps dangerous characteristic. 24. The upshot of this self-discovery. 25. Is a future close relationship possible? 26. Waxing philosophical about `love' among the non-autistic. 27. The emotional deficit. 28. Self-compensating. 29. Our own country. 30. Retrospect. 31. What I have tried to do here. 32. Conclusion. 33. Epilogue.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 128
ISBN-13: 9781853027246
ISBN-10: 1853027243
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schneider, Edgar
Hersteller: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
Maße: 234 x 156 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Edgar Schneider
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1999
Gewicht: 0,207 kg
preigu-id: 106784807
Über den Autor
Edgar Schneider was diagnosed as a high-functioning autistic in 1995. Formerly a mathematician and computer programmer, he now lives and continues to write in Florida.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue. 1. The determining time period. 2. Aftermath. 3. Resolution, of a sort. 4. Suspicions. 5. A revelation. 6. Recap of a terrible period. 7. Correlating my past life. 8. An interesting aside. 9. My tastes. 10. What I mean by the word `love'. 11. A missing faculty. 12. Two perilous characteristics. 13. Can `heartless' pity be real? 14. Grief. 15. Death and the afterlife. 16. Solitude and loneliness. 17. Learning. 18. Values manufested during military service. 19. Interactions with others. 20. Art as an early outlet. 21. Religion. 22. Disclaimers about religion. 23. A perhaps dangerous characteristic. 24. The upshot of this self-discovery. 25. Is a future close relationship possible? 26. Waxing philosophical about `love' among the non-autistic. 27. The emotional deficit. 28. Self-compensating. 29. Our own country. 30. Retrospect. 31. What I have tried to do here. 32. Conclusion. 33. Epilogue.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 128
ISBN-13: 9781853027246
ISBN-10: 1853027243
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schneider, Edgar
Hersteller: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
Maße: 234 x 156 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Edgar Schneider
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1999
Gewicht: 0,207 kg
preigu-id: 106784807
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