Full name: Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism

Author: Paul Collins Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Psychology, History, Parenting Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582343679 1582343675

When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins's travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author's own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology - a meditation on what normal is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms. Similar books: George & Sam by Charlotte Moore Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer Following Ezra by Tom Fields-Meyer Louder Than Words by Jenny McCarthy There's a Boy in Here by Judy Barron Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice Strange Son by Portia Iversen A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin Life, Animated by Ron Suskind In a Different Key by John Donvan Like Colour to the Blind by Donna Williams The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida The Trouble with Tom by Paul Collins Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins