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While researching the history of Peter the Wild Boy, author Paul Collins becomes convinced that Peter is the first recorded case of autism. As he reaches his conclusion, Paul's son is diagnosed as autistic. Not Even Wrong explores other historical figures exhibiting the symptoms of autism and parallels them with the growing relationship Collins has with his son. PROOF COPIES AVAILABLE.
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Part memoir, part history, Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism traces the lives of suspected autists both famous and obscure, from Peter the Wild Boy, a semi-feral child who became a sensation at the court of George I, to Henry Darger, the recluse and outsider artist. Paul Collins dabbles in neurology and science history, but what emerges is nothing less than a portrait of how his son Morgan's mind works--as well as a respectful and fascinating account of those with autism and their contributions to our world.
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Paul Collins and his wife Jennifer thought their son was perfect. At age one Morgan learned the alphabet; by two, he was reading, counting, even doing multiplication tables--yet he couldn't respond to his own name and scarcely noticed others in the room. He was gifted, intelligent, preternaturally focused, but a stranger in the strange land of human emotions. Fortunately, Paul Collins is eminently suited to act as his guide. The author of Banvard's Folly and the bibliophile's delight Sixpence House, Collins is a very particular kind of historian: an archaeologist of the arcane and a lover of eccentric people and facts. Not Even Wrong turns that love to the best possible use. --Mary Park, Amazon.com
The author of Sixpence House and Banvard's Folly, whose son Morgan could read and spell at age three, but not answer to his own name, blends a memoir of his son's autistic world with an examination of such permanent outsiders and geniuses as Defoe and Swift.
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- PublisherFusion Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1904132340
- ISBN 13 9781904132349
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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