Unwrapping the Mysteries of Asperger's

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http://books.google.com/books?id=HrzIJv ... &q&f=false

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I find it ill-considered and offensive. It seems to be a simple overlay of traditional NT gender stereotypes used to justify a statistical gap in diagnosis.

I find it is a testimony, not really what I expected as an "unwrapping".

The author stacks and mixes her own experiences with how she chose to behave in some situations. Of course there are a lot of chapters missing, but the format of what is there is telling. Nevertheless, knowing how any aspie copes with asperger is never a bad thing, there is always some good clues to be found.

I see this book like the first time I came on Wrongplanet not so long ago. I had my experience with living with asperger and I thought it was it... But I was in shock when I read some posts, I realized that even asperger is a set of symptoms, the consequences of asperger are quite different in the context of every single life

So I think she thought "because some things worked for me, they should work for every aspie"... But there is a chain of critical steps, for one given state, to come into a specific state of mind that allows a self-sustaining, positive development of asperger people, and I don't think that model is in that book

NOTE: it is said she has Apserger, and I find it pretty credible for what I read

My first impression thus far regards the comment she makes about "preventing her children from developing autism" in the introduction. This expresses a lack of medical understanding that it is neurological/physical. One does not "develop" autism - we're born that way. She may have intended to imply helping her children cope effectively with it, but I object to the wording she actually used.

Second, I lack the medical background to say for certain that vaccines don't exacerbate autistic 'symptoms', but I definitely don't believe they 'cause' it. More misinformation.

The rest I've seen before.

I was interested in the book because I'm always interested in things written about the female experience of asperger's. But then I went to Amazon to look at the reviews there and found a posting from the author, containing this sentence: "Ask all the parents who lost their children to autism right after being vaccinated." which I find highly offensive and so I am not longer interested in reading this book.