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Asperger Syndrome - A Love Story

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This helped me so much. I am 31 and in a relationship with a man with Aspergers. It is a really simple read with perspectives from each partner on various aspects of the relationship. It helped my understanding greatly and has already improved my relationship! 5 Stars.

This is a great book. It's funny and charming and honest. I love the bluntness that Kevin exhibits (even if we're just going to attribute it to AS.) For example:

S: Darling, why won't you marry me?
K: Because you might have an aberration and I might want
to get rid of you. If we were married I would have to give
you half my stuff, and I wouldn't want to do that.

Ha ha ha! Awesome.

I started into "Asperger Syndrome: A Love Story" with the high hopes that it would be a funny, engrossing, and at times sad look at the relationship between a man with Asperger's and a woman. I realize that this is a memoir of sorts, and memoirs by their very nature are somewhat self-indulgent, but I felt more like I was reading someone's Facebook profile than the story of their relationship. I'm sure the people who wrote this are very nice individuals who mean well, but this book falls completely flat. Maybe I shouldn't have read "The Journal of Best Practices" before this book so that my expectations would not have been so high.

This book made sense of a lot of feelings that I have and addressed many of my frustrations with my partner. This book addresses the challenging aspects while giving hope that these relationships can work. I have highlighted many points of this book and shared with my partner. I highly recommend this book!