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From the Author
I'm not an expert. I'm a social philosopher. As a sociologist, teacher and researcher, I try to avoid talking about pathology and look at processes. I take a stance closer to that of social psychology and raise the issues and perspectives that scientists then explore. My text books have become foundation texts in special education and psychology courses and have changed the treatment, education and educational environments of people on the autistic spectrum quite dramatically over the last ten years. My works are unapologetically controversial and about far more than autism spectrum conditions. I have written about sensory perceptual disorders and differences, cognitive and information processing differences, anxiety disorders, sensing and intuition, about identity, personality and co-dependency, about communication disorders and differences, about condition versus culture and most importantly about the person, individuality, daring and humility. I do not claim at any!
time that autism is any one thing, quite the contrary, I claim it is very diverse and far more like a fruit salad, the combinations of which differ from person to person as do the multitude of underlying causes and the wholistic means of addressing them. My books are read far outside of the autism world alone and as autism is merely normal processes with the volume turned way up, many of the issues I write about give non-autistic people surprising insights into themselves.
