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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Victims of the complex, much-misunderstood and professionally baffling disease of autism will find an eloquent voice in Australian-born Williams, one of its victorious survivors. After 25 years, this daughter of abusive parents, shunted from school to school, began to emerge from a private, protective, hallucinatory world in which she was inhabitated by multiple personalities. Here Williams recounts how she learned to communicate and live with others. Inspired by an empathetic therapist, and determined to "take herself apart and put herself back together," Williams resumed schooling, graduating from college with honors. While she will always be autistic, her moving memoir and clear analysis of the nature of her illness shows how she was able to transcend it at least partially. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Williams is a young Australian woman who has overcome enormous handicaps in order to function in the world. As auto biography or literature, her book is indeed a satisfactory guide to understanding the autistic experience. However, Williams's family is so dysfunctional--impoverished, abusive, and negligent--that it is difficult to sort out which of her problems are due to the autism and which stem from other factors. Consequently, Judy and Sean Bar ron's There's a Boy in Here (LJ 2/1/92), jointly written by an autistic and his mother, is a better choice for most librar ies as a source illuminating the world of autistic people and their families.
-Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Victims of the complex, much-misunderstood and professionally baffling disease of autism will find an eloquent voice in Australian-born Williams, one of its victorious survivors. After 25 years, this daughter of abusive parents, shunted from school to school, began to emerge from a private, protective, hallucinatory world in which she was inhabitated by multiple personalities. Here Williams recounts how she learned to communicate and live with others. Inspired by an empathetic therapist, and determined to "take herself apart and put herself back together," Williams resumed schooling, graduating from college with honors. While she will always be autistic, her moving memoir and clear analysis of the nature of her illness shows how she was able to transcend it at least partially. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Williams is a young Australian woman who has overcome enormous handicaps in order to function in the world. As auto biography or literature, her book is indeed a satisfactory guide to understanding the autistic experience. However, Williams's family is so dysfunctional--impoverished, abusive, and negligent--that it is difficult to sort out which of her problems are due to the autism and which stem from other factors. Consequently, Judy and Sean Bar ron's There's a Boy in Here (LJ 2/1/92), jointly written by an autistic and his mother, is a better choice for most librar ies as a source illuminating the world of autistic people and their families.
-Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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