Not Even Wrong
A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism
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Not Even Wrong
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Narrated by:
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Tim Getman
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By:
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Paul Collins
When Paul Collins’s son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head … but 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.
©2004 Paul Collins (P)2022 Blackstone Publishingand how refreshing to hear a voice call out to remind us how wrong we have been about so many things in the past.
essential reading to anyone entering the field of disability be they parent, student, support worker of any grade or anyone involved for the first time with support for those with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
five stars (out of five!)
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