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Paperback Living and Loving with Asperger Syndrome: Family Viewpoints Book

ISBN: 1843107449

ISBN13: 9781843107446

Living and Loving with Asperger Syndrome: Family Viewpoints

For most people, family life means both love and compromise. Within families where one or more members have Asperger Syndrome (AS), this compromise becomes yet more crucial to mutual happiness. In this book, the McCabe family discuss how Patrick's AS affects each relationship. Estelle, Patrick's wife, talks about how she has adjusted her speech and social life in order to live peacefully with her husband. In turn, Patrick discusses how he has learnt to accommodate Estelle's needs and his teenage son's growing independence to his desire for strict routine and clear communication. Jared explains how his father's AS has affected growing up and describes ways in which issues can be resolved without either losing face with his peers or upsetting his parents. Focusing positively on the relationships that are both the most important and the most difficult to maintain, this book is invaluable for anyone closely involved with AS. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 4 stars
The horrors of a post-colonial dictatorship

I re-read this book recently as the news from Zimbabwe continues to get worse and worse -- and as I write this, a cholera epidemic has gripped the country. Christina Lamb has done readers a great service by telling the story of Zimbabwe's recent history through the eyes of two individuals, the African maid Aqui, who once dreamed of becoming a nurse and now struggles to feed her family, and Nigel, a white farmer whose family...

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Great reading

I found this book while browsing for another one and I have to say, it is fantastic!! I couldn't stop reading, I had to continue chapter after chapter. It is a shocking story about the rise of Mugabe, told from two different point of views, a black girl and on the other side a white boy, both growing up in their worlds in Zimbabwe. This book makes great reading and is shocking at the same time. A must read for anyone concerned...

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House of Stone

I enjoyed reading the Rhodesian story from both the black and white african perspective. I thought this was a well written book from beginning to end. As a white ex-Rhodesian, I find the story terribly sad and look at what has happened to this beautiful country a crime to both black and white africans. Mugabe has a lot to answer for and will go down in history as one of Africa's great criminals together with Idi Amin. ...

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Great view of the current situation

Great view of the current situation of people's personal experiences. I pre-ordered the book and could not put it down once I received it. Very well written and easy to understand even if it is the first book you read on southern Africa and its people. It is also a sad story, but information is important and reflect's on Mrs. Lamb's skill as a journalist. My only hope is that Mrs. Lamb has a follow up in a few years as events...

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The story of Zimbabwe

For anyone wanting to read a clear, concise and elegantly written account of the story of Zimbabwe, this book must not be overlooked. Christina Lamb is a British jounalist who brings us this dramatic account of the country, as seen through the eyes of a typical white Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer, who finally loses his farm, and an equally typical black Zimbabwean woman, who ends up working for his family. The book is a riveting...

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