Born on the Wrong Planet (ePub)
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The story of the childhood and young adulthood of Erika Hammerschmidt, a young woman diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, takes the reader into a confusing and often tumultuous world. On her eccentric journey, coping mechanisms include ladybug biology, extreme linguistics, alien worldbuilding, picky eating, and eventual marriage to someone else on the autism spectrum. Throughout this book, Erika's unique language skills and her fresh perspective on the world combine to make a delightful and enlightening read.
I was diagnosed with various neurological disorders around the age of 11, but labels aren't everything to me. We are all individuals, and a diagnosis is just one of humanity's flawed but natural attempts to arrange the world into categories that seem neat and orderly. It's language, and as much as I love language, it is not a perfect way of describing reality. There is no perfect way. No word's definition is universally agreed upon. No written definition can perfectly encompass the idea expressed by a word. And some ideas can't even be expressed by words in the first place.
What I am can be described partially by the words "Autism," "Asperger Syndrome," and "Tourette Syndrome," with their definitions as printed in the 1992 edition of the DSM-IV, as they were interpreted by my childhood psychiatrist... but really, individual people all have their own unique mental conditions. Mine works for me right now, with or without labels. I see no need to change.
- Autor: Erika Hammerschmidt
- 2020, Englisch
- Verlag: Erika Hammerschmidt
- ISBN-10: 0463390377
- ISBN-13: 9780463390375
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2020
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