Loving the Tasmanian Devil: Reflections on Marriage and Asperger Syndrome: Loving a Spouse with Autism - Softcover

Bartlett, Maureen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193457581X ISBN 13: 9781934575819

Publisher: AAPC Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Loving the Tasmanian Devil Having a partner with Asperger Syndrome can feel like a roller-coaster ride for the neurotypical spouse -- riding high one moment on the spouse's charming quirkiness, only soon to spiral downward, exhausted and discouraged -- sometimes by the very same traits, which have suddenly taken new forms of expression. In this charming and well-written book, the author combines research on autism spectrum ... Full description

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About the Author

Maureen McCarthy Bartlett is a dairy farmer and high school teacher and has been married to a man with ASD for the past twenty-one years. She lives with her husband, three sons, one dog, one chinchilla, four geese, twenty four cats, and 300 cows on a farm in Central New York. Maureen grew up in Lockport, New York, and is a graduate of Amherst College and SUNY Cortland. A teacher for almost twenty years, she teaches a class/shadowing program for high school seniors interested in agriculture or environmental science careers and also teaches college writing for classes of seniors heading toward health, law, education, and business careers. She loves working with teenagers - the quirkier the better.

About this edition

• Publisher: AAPC Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 193457581X
• ISBN 13: 9781934575819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322