Edgar 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.
Edgar 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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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