| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Contents |
Being in the world but not of it -- Searching for the rules -- Learning which way is left -- Acting, independently -- Becoming the enemy -- Losing friends and gaining contacts -- Watching the end of the world -- Dying and surviving -- Educating the mad -- Forgetting the script |
| Summary |
Jeanette Purkis spent her early life reacting violently against her feelings of embarrassment, anger and confusion about her 'difference' from other people. She was unaware until well into adulthood that everything she found difficult, including her lack of success in forming relationships, could be a result of having Asperger Syndrome. Used to being a misfit from a very young age, Jeanette found that being a member of a group in which she had a label - Jeanette the Communist; Jeanette, Enemy of the State; Jeanette the convict; Jeanette the drug addict - gave her a sense of order she could dep |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Purkis, Yenn, 1974-
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Purkis, Yenn, 1974- |
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Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Biography
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Asperger Syndrome
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Psychology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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Asperger's syndrome -- Patients
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005026416 |
| ISBN |
9781843104162 |
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1843104164 |
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1846424690 |
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9781846424694 |
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128056654X |
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9781280566547 |
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9786610566549 |
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6610566542 |
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