Edgar Schneider

Discovering My Autism

Apologia Pro Vita Sua with Apologies to Cardinal Newman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9781853027246
• ISBN-10: 1853027243
• Artikelnr.: 22139160

Autorenporträt

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.