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Growing Up Severely Autistic: They Call Me Gabriel

  • ISBN-13: 9781853028915
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Kate Rankin
  • Price: AUD $40.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2000
  • Format: Paperback (233.00mm X 158.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 332g
  • Categories: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome [MJNA]
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Gabriel is a teenager who is severely autistic: he is completely unsocialized, is incontinent and is unable to speak. In this book his mother, with great honesty, describes what it is like to bring up an autistic child who requires constant care and exhibits challenging behaviour.Written partly in diary form, Growing Up Severely Autistic covers the minutiae of daily life with vivid immediacy, from preventing Gabriel eating the goldfish, to helping him through his grief on the death of his father. Gabriel's life and relationships with his family are traced from early childhood, through his school days to his entry into residential care at the age of 17. With affection and humour, Kate Rankin has written a personal and intimate study of someone who is very different from those around him, and who cannot himself articulate his experiences.
Foreword. 1. My name is Gabriel. 2. Everyday autism. 3. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity', or, every stick has two ends. 4. More life and times on Planet Autism. 5. 'When did you know?' 6. A cuckoo in the nest. 7. New school. 8. Growing up, or, fitting a square peg in a round hole. 9. 'But the greatest of these is charity.' 10. Many happy returns of the day. 11. Cousin Mary, Victor of Aveyron, and Peter the wild boy. 12. Autism: What is it? What causes it? What can be done about it? 13. 'Of my life story I know only the middle, not the beginning nor the end.' 14. Dark days. 15. Shit happens. 16. Turkeys don't cry. 17. A free spirit. List of quotations.
The winner of the Mind Book of the Year Award was Growing up Severely Autistic: They Call Me Gabriel by Kate Rankin. This courageous book by the mother of an autistic boy was praised by judges Blake Morrison, Michele Roberts and Fay Weldon for its emotional honesty and the power and clarity of its writing.
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