Finding a Different Kind of Normal

Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome

Jeanette Purkis
Foreword by Donna Williams

Paperback: £14.99 / $24.95

2006, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-416-2, BIC 2: BG JM

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1. Being in the world but not of it. 2. Searching for the rules. 3. Learning which way is left. 4. Acting, independently. 5. Becoming the enemy. 6. Losing friends and gaining contacts. 7. Watching the end of the world. 8. Dying and surviving. 9. Educating the mad. 10. Forgetting the script.

Author information

• Jeanette Purkis

Subject areas

• Fiction & Memoirs
• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes
• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• adults,
• anger management,
• Asperger syndrome,
• challenging behaviour,
• forensic psychiatry,
• memoirs,
• mental health,
• mental illness,
• occupational therapy,
• offenders,
• probation,
• self harm,
• social work,
• substance abuse

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