Bibliograph

Twirling naked in the streets-- and no one noticed, growing up with undiagnosed autism, Jeannie Davide-Rivera

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Twirling naked in the streets-- and no one noticed, growing up with undiagnosed autism, Jeannie Davide-Rivera

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Twirling naked in the streets-- and no one noticed

Oclc number

847968145

Responsibility statement

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

Sub title

growing up with undiagnosed autism

Summary

Jeannie grew up with autism, but no one around her knew it. Twirling Naked in the Streets will take you on a journey into the mind of a child on the autism spectrum; a child who grows into an adolescent, an adult, and becomes a wife, mother, student, and writer with autism. This is a gripping memoir of a quirky, weird, but gifted child who grows up never quite finding her niche. It took 38 years to discover that all the issues, problems, and weirdness she experienced were because she had Asperger's Syndrome (AS), a form of high-functioning autism. The tale begins at age three and takes us all the way through her diagnosis. Along the way she explains autism in a way that will have fellow "Aspies" crying tears of joy at being understood, and "neuro-typical" people really starting to grasp the challenges that autistic people face every moment of every day

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