Hello, Stranger

My Life on the Autism Spectrum

By: Barbara Moran, Karl Williams

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Paperback | 19 March 2019

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240 Pages

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"... Insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!" - Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in Pictures

"An extraordinary look at autism from the inside - by turns heartbreaking, uplifting, illuminating, witty, and wise." - Steve Silberman, author, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Barbara Moran has never known how to be good.

As a child, she made strange noises, fidgeted constantly, and licked her lips until they cracked. She had "upsets" that embarrassed and frustrated her family. Worse still, she developed friendships with inanimate objects-everything from roller skates to tables to an antique refrigerator-and became obsessed with images of cathedrals.

She was institutionalized, analyzed, and marginalized, cast aside as not trying hard enough to fit in.

But after almost forty years, Barbara was given an answer for her inability to be like, and to connect with, other people: autism.

Hello, Stranger is the story of a misunderstood life that serves as an eye-opening call for compassion. Bracingly honest, Barbara describes the profound loneliness of being abandoned and judged while also expressing her deep yearning simply to be loved and to give love.

Hello, Stranger is a challenge to every reader to see the beauty and the humanity present in every individual.

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"...insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!"--Temple Grandin
"An extraordinary look at autism from the inside - by turns heartbreaking, uplifting, illuminating, witty, and wise."--Steve Silberman, author, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
"A testament to neurodiversity and a call to acceptance."--Martha Leary, author of Autism: Sensory-Movement Differences and Diversity
"An uncommon soul navigating the pain and triumph of self-discovery."--William Stillman, award-winning author of The Soul of Autism and Empowered Autism Parenting
"As sweet and honest and painful and true and illuminating as any personal story you will ever read."--Paula Kluth, Ph.D., author of You're Going to Love This Kid: Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
"Remarkably detailed, stunningly honest, and, in the end, deeply moving. A unique look into the heart and mind of someone who never fit in."--Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister

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