Congratulations! It's Asperger's syndrome / Jen Birch.

By:

Birch, Jen, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1417502835
9781417502837
1846423937
9781846423932
1283904268
9781283904261
1843101122
9781843101123

Other title:

Congratulations! It's Asperger syndrome

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Congratulations! It's Asperger's syndrome.DDC classification:

616.85880092 22

LOC classification:

RC553.A88 B524 2003eb

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Contents:

Congratulations! It's Asperger Syndrome; Contents; To the Reader; Part One; 1. Life at Park Fields; 2. The Cognitive Realm: Understanding My World; 3. Feathers with Everything! Part I; 4. Death Comes to Park Fields; 5. Identity and Boundary Issues; 6. In the Workforce: Part I; 7. Feathers with Everything! Part II; 8. Some Social Situations; 9. Co-ordination Issues; 10. Other Special Skills and Interests; 11. Aunty Hazel: A Story; 12. The Psychiatric Hospital; 13. Asking for Help; 14. In the Workforce: Part II; 15. Married to a Mole; 16. The Training Course; 17. In the Workforce: Part III.

Production credits:

Produced by the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind.

Summary: One of the increasing number of people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in adulthood, New Zealand-born Jen Birch relates her story with humour and honesty, taking us through the years of frustration and confusion that led to her diagnosis in 1998. Now that she can put her life experiences into context, she candidly describes her continual search for 'normality', including her experiences at work, her difficulties with relationships, her time spent in psychiatric hospital and her struggle for correct diagnosis in a country where the syndrome is relatively unknown. Talking positively about how h.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270).

One of the increasing number of people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in adulthood, New Zealand-born Jen Birch relates her story with humour and honesty, taking us through the years of frustration and confusion that led to her diagnosis in 1998. Now that she can put her life experiences into context, she candidly describes her continual search for 'normality', including her experiences at work, her difficulties with relationships, her time spent in psychiatric hospital and her struggle for correct diagnosis in a country where the syndrome is relatively unknown. Talking positively about how h.