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Little Boy Lost

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A fantastic story of a mother's struggle to understand and meet the needs of her autistic son. I wish there was another follow-up book as I would love to know how Sam is doing now. Bronwyn Hocking seems to have realised that the relative influences of nurture/nature in her son's condition are finally irrelevant. What matters is that she has now done everything in her power to get Sam's needs met, whether or not it goes against current orthodoxy. Her personal journey is inspiring, Sam's even more so.

An odd and depressing book in which a mother explains why she believes herself to be the cause of her son's autism, even though the psychoanalytic account of autism to which she subscribes has been discredited for over twenty years, during which the evidence for the neurological origins of autism has become overwhelming, and people with high-functioning autism (such as Temple Grandin) have spoken out repeatedly to criticise the view of autism as psychogenic.

Thank you, Bronwyn. An honest account of your struggle in the dark to find the road to take for Sam's best chance at life. Please, please write a follow-up. Sam is a young man now and there are many of us out here who would love to know how his, and your, life has progressed.