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Title: Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
Author: Paul Collins
ISBN: 9781582343679
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 256
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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When Paul Collins’s son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world.
In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son’s autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins’s travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author’s own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology – a meditation on what normal is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.
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