Tom Cutler

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my adventures with Asperger's

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Produktbeschreibung

A wonderfully bittersweet, funnystrange account of living unwittingly with Asperger's syndrome.It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that's come before, including his weird obsessions with road-sign design, magic tricks, spinning tops, and Sherlock Holmes. The final realisation that he has Asperger's allows a light to dawn on the riddles of his life: his accidental rudeness, maladroitness, Pan Am smile, and other social impediments. But, like many with Asperger's, Tom possesses great facility with words, and this shines through this exceptionally warm, bright, and moving memoir, which is alternately strikingly revealing, laugh-out-loud funny, and achingly sad.Tom explores his eccentric behaviour from boyhood to manhood, examines the role of autism in his strange family, and investigates the scientific explanations for the condition. He recounts his anxiety and bewilderment in social situations, his sensory overload, his strange way of dressing, and his particular trouble with girls. He shares his autistic adventures in offices, toyshops, backstage in theatres, and in book and magazine publishing houses, as well as on - or more often off - roads.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781925693157
• Artikelnr.: 72461241

Autorenporträt

Tom Cutler is a bestselling author of humor books, including 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do and The Gentleman's Bedside Companion. The son of a sex therapist and a sometime Dominican friar, Tom Cutler is one of the few Englishmen to have been married in Bismarck, North Dakota. He is a practising magician and member of the Magic Circle, as well as a detective story fan and longstanding Sherlock Holmes aficionado. In 2016 he was identified as being on the autism spectrum. This, he says, was the happiest day of his life.