Archives for "February, 2009"
Book Giveaway: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
It’s Friday! To celebrate, I’m giving away a free copy of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Although the main character of this book is an autistic 15-year-old, I’d recommend this book for grown-ups. If you read the book through and decide you’re okay with the subject matter and [...]
Coming Up: Book Giveaway + First Person
I’m happy and excited to announce that a series of Q&A’s with adults on the spectrum is in the works. The series will be called First Person and comes about from the wonderful acquaintances I’ve made. Being an adult with Aspergers and especially a woman, I’ve found that creating a network of peers was one [...]
Autistic and In Love
A friend tipped me off to this article in Glamour about a couple (pictured above), both on the spectrum. I’ll say “on the spectrum” because the article characterizes everyone with ASDs as “autistic” even though some seem more high-functioning than others.
It reminds me just a little of Mozart And The Whale, another popular Aspergers/Autism love [...]
Alphabeep
(You can really flip through the pages by clicking the book!)
Alphabeep
Written by Debora Pearson
Illustrated by Edward Miller
An A-Z of trucks and vehicles; I personally love the road signs on the endpapers. Family legend has it I used to interpret every road sign on our long trips up and down the California highways and never missed [...]




