Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism - Hardcover

Nazeer, Kamran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582346194 ISBN 13: 9781582346199

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2006

Synopsis

A candid, surprising, and moving portrait of four autistic men and women who were enrolled alongside a dozen other children in a small New York City school, where they received care that was at the cutting edge of psychology at the time, explores the texture of autistic lives and the pressures and limitations that the condition presents. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

`An invaluable addition to the literature of autism'
-- Spectator

`Extraordinary ... a moving account of five very different lives
united by the experience of growing up with autism' -- Image

`It is through Nazeer's frank portrayal of these lives that we
come to understand a little better what it is to live with autism' -- Daily Express

`One gets the sense from Nazeer's hopeful and honest book that he
has little patience for the clichés of autism' -- Observer

`This remarkable piece of true-life storytelling takes as its
theme not disability, but humanity' -- Independent

About the Author:

Kamran Nazeer was born of itinerant Pakistani parents and has lived in New York, Jeddah, Islamabad, and Glasgow. He studied law but decided not to become a lawyer. By the time he completed his Ph.D. thesis, he had decided not to become an academic. On leaving Cambridge, he was recruited into Her Majesty’s Service and works as a policy adviser in Whitehall. He has published work in U.K. newspapers and magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1582346194
• ISBN 13: 9781582346199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230