Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270).
Contents
Prologue : The other world -- Part one : Awakenings. Yankee Doodle Dandy -- The news -- Jabberwocky -- Raw timber -- Golden slumbers -- The thing with feathers -- Melting down -- Holding patterns -- The Red Queen's race -- Camp Wonder -- Part two : Refractions. Urinetown -- The play of shadows -- A brief history of stims -- As others see us -- In the echo chamber -- Part three : Emergencies. Fighting words -- May Day! -- Departures -- Returns -- Nosology -- Letting go -- Epilogue : One of us.
Summary
A father chronicles the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their autistic son's disability and offers an honest look at a child who does not overcome autism and a family that survives on love.