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The feeling's unmutual: growing up with Asperger Syndrome (undiagnosed)
- Author:
- HADCROFT Will
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 236p.
- Place of publication:
- London
What makes the Asperger child immerse himself in such things as Doctor Who and The Incredible Hulk? In this autobiographical account, the author links his obsessive TV series fixations to eventually being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. He describes drawing comfort from identifying himself with heroic individuals or fictional characters, and the liberating effect of an accurate diagnosis for someone who felt 'out of place' and didn't know why. This book offers an insight into the experience of feeling ‘unmutual', or misunderstood and how this can result in bullying at school and in the workplace, escalating into social phobia, paranoia and obsessive behaviour.