"Undiagnosed Asperger's Leads To 'Life As An Outsider' "
Fresh Air from WHYY
October 13, 2009
"For most of his life, music critic Tim Page felt like an outsider. Restless and isolated, he was overstimulated and uneasy around others. Finally, when he was 45, Page was diagnosed with Asperger's, a syndrome that falls within the autism spectrum.
As Page explains in the prologue of his new memoir, Parallel Play: Life As An Outsider, the diagnosis came as a relief: "Here, finally, was an objective explanation for some of my strengths and weaknesses," he writes."
Full interview at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =113744905
16 Oct 2009, 3:22 pm
