Knowing Autism by Lorca Damon, eBook 2012 Edition; an Extended Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
(1% indicates the eReader book location, instead of page reference numbers).
1% I couldn’t find any practical day-to-day information on raising my autistic daughter. Some books were nothing more than pie in-the-sky manifestos on how I should wear my daughter’s diagnosis and wear it like a badge of honor, as if I was one of the lucky ones who was chosen to have autism creep into my family and try to steal my daughter away.
2% I wrote about all the little things we learned that made a difference in helping my daughter become a stronger and more confident person, in spite of what autism was trying to do to her.
3% Overall, the theme of that book was about telling my daughter, “I love you fiercely, but you are going to have to learn to live in the same world as I do.”
(1% indicates the eReader book location, instead of page reference numbers).
1% I couldn’t find any practical day-to-day information on raising my autistic daughter. Some books were nothing more than pie in-the-sky manifestos on how I should wear my daughter’s diagnosis and wear it like a badge of honor, as if I was one of the lucky ones who was chosen to have autism creep into my family and try to steal my daughter away.
2% I wrote about all the little things we learned that made a difference in helping my daughter become a stronger and more confident person, in spite of what autism was trying to do to her.
3% Overall, the theme of that book was about telling my daughter, “I love you fiercely, but you are going to have to learn to live in the same world as I do.”
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