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    Different . . . Not Less; Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD
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    Different . . . Not Less; Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD
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    Different . . . Not Less; Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD

    By Temple Grandin

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    Temple Grandin offers the world yet another great work, an inspiring and informative book that offers both hope and encouragement! In these pages, Temple presents the personal success stories of fourteen unique individuals that illustrate the extraordinary potential of those on the autism spectrum.One of Temple’s primary missions is to help people with autism, Asperger’s syndrome, and ADHD tap into their hidden abilities. Temple chose these contributors, from a wide variety of different skill sets, to show how it can be done. Each individual tells their own story, in their own words, about their lives, relationships, and eventual careers.The contributors also share how they dealt with issues they confronted while growing up, such as bullying, making eye contact, and honing social skills.Different...Not Less shows how, with work, each of the contributors:Found invaluable mentorsLearned skills necessary for employment when youngBecame successfully employedDeveloped self-confidenceFaced the challenges of forming and maintaining relationships, and raising families
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781935274735
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    Different . . . Not Less; Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD
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    Temple Grandin

    TEMPLE GRANDIN is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Autistic Brain, which have sold more than a million copies. Named one of Time's most influential people in 2010, the HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.

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    • 5/5
      This is a collection of success stories from a variety of very different people on the autism spectrum, selected and with introductions by Temple Grandin. The people are very different, their stories are very different, and their definitions of success are very different.For some, success is holding down a job, however modest, and being able to support themselves. For others, there's considerable professional success, in technology, art, teaching, and business in various forms.Some have found that marriage and romantic romantic relationships are not a thing they are successful at, no matter how well they do in other areas of life. Some have built successful marriages, though often only after being diagnosed as autistic, enabling them and their partners to understand their behavior better.These are diverse, fascinating individuals, who have learned to understand and work with, rather than against, their autism. Having been recently been diagnosed as autistic myself, after a lifetime of trying to be "normal," with feelings of frustration and failure at how out of place I feel in many "normal" settings, while "hiding" in setting where geeks and nerds set the standard for "normal" and I feel far more at home, this definitely resonated for me.These are the stories of people who "don't fit in," yet have found ways to live that work for them and let them be themselves.Recommended.I bought this audiobook.
    • 3/5
      As an Aspie (I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome nearly 10 years ago in my mid-50's) and a big fan of Temple Grandin, I was excited to run across this book. It presents self-portraits of over a dozen adults on various places along the autism spectrum. While the extent of their impairment varies considerably, all are functioning and employed.I was disappointed with the book, but that may better reflect my high hopes for it than any shortcomings in the book. The participants were working from a template; consequently, their chapters are highly selective portraits of their past and current lives rather than rounded memoirs. But people who have questions about life on the spectrum will find a lot of hope in these stories. Each of the persons had to find their own places in life, often through painful trial and error. Almost all of them, however, eventually established satisfying careers and a network of support persons to nurture and mentor them. (The exception is a woman who has always worked as a retail sales clerk and never enjoyed her jobs.)They also represent a variety of life situations. Some are married. Some are divorced. Some have kids. And some (like me) are loners and happy in their self-selected solitude. That doesn't mean they're entirely socially isolated, just that they (I) enjoy living alone.I found the most valuable parts of the book to be Dr. Grandin's closing advice on career advice to be very informative. It's not relevant to me now that I'm retired, but I can see how I pretty much lucked into my own rewarding career in libraries.She also voices some concerns about the proposed changes to the DSM-V (scheduled for publication in 2013) in diagnoses and diagnostic criteria for persons on the spectrum.

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    • 2/5
      Even though many of the people who tell their stories in this book success in the world of work, most have broken lives. I had hoped for more encouragement.