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    Redefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child
    Redefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child
    Redefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child
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    Redefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child

    By Brooke Price

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    'Redefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child' is an amazingly resourceful book. It gives advice to 'newly diagnosed parents' and prepares them for what they are about to face. This book also gives good advice from other autism parents that Brooke Price interviewed asking what the joys of autism are and what advice they wish they would've been given in the beginning. Brooke is a seasoned mother of an severely autistic little boy, she wrote this book hoping to help a newly diagnosed child's family begin to cope with the changes you have to implement better than Brooke's family had. She wants to help the parents understand the medical terms they are going to be hearing and the tests that may be preformed. She touches on the extremely unfortunate events and important topics and debates. Your eyes will really be opened after you read this book. Go ahead and read Redefining Normal. You will learn something you didn't know about autism disorder.

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    PublisherBrooke Price
    Release dateMar 12, 2014
    ISBN9781311208927
    Redefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child
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    Brooke Price

    Brooke Price is the author of:Living Through Autism’s Eyes: My Journey With My SonBeautiful Disaster’s: A Look Inside of Bipolar DisorderRedefining Normal: A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic ChildPainting the Spectrum Gold: Advancements in AutismMelting Down Meltdowns: When a Tantrum isnt a TantrumThe Monster Inside of Me: Living with Borderline Personality DisorderBrooke is the mother of a teenager with autism and a preteen with ADHD. Brooke writes real life books for real life people.

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      Redefining Normal - Brooke Price

      Redefining Normal:

      A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child

      (Written for Autism Parents by an Autism Parent)

      Also from Brooke Price

      ‘Living Through Autism’s Eyes: My Journey with My Son, 2nd Edition’

      ‘8 Simple Steps to IEP Success’

      ‘Beautiful Disasters: A Look Inside of Bipolar Disorder’

      Redefining Normal:

      A Real World Guide to Raising an Autistic Child

      Brooke Price

      Another World Publishing Washington ©2014

      Smashwords Edition

      For the parents that just discovered they are part of the ASD family. Keep persevering, one day your sense of hopelessness will become your sense of solace.

      Disclaimer:

      AWP and their author, Mrs. Brooke Price, officially state that Mrs. Price is not a medical doctor. All information in this book has been obtained from research, experience as an autism mother, and interviews. Thank you.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1: Questioning Everything pgs.

      Chapter 2: Criticism & Abandonment

      Chapter 3: Medical Basics

      Chapter 4: Challenging Behaviors

      Chapter 5: Medication vs. No medications

      Chapter 6: The infamous cause & cure debate

      Chapter 7: A whole new look at school Pgs.

      Chapter 8: The number one cause of death of our children

      Chapter 9: The affects autism has on siblings

      Chapter 10: The dark side of caregiver stress

      Chapter 11: The joys of being an autism parent

      Chapter 12: Advice from fellow autism parents

      Work Cited

      Sample of Other Work

      Acknowledgments

      When I get an idea in my head, a book I want to write, I start writing and tend to lose track of the world. I forget any responsibilities I have. Except my children of course. This particular book came out of a spontaneous idea. I sat down and started in. In this time, per usual, I have lost track of everything. I think I owe a few people a thank you for being so understanding. Many thanks and much gratitude to my two Co- administrators for our Autism Support Group- Thank you guys so much for picking up my slack. To my friends that I mostly ignored. You guys rock, thanks for your unwavering support. I’d also like to thank my sons, each member of my support group, all the people that have become personal friends through our connection to autism, all members of AWP, Judi for keeping me on track. My mom, my dad, Tawana, my siblings-all one zillion of you, ha-ha, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles. My parents. Mostly I want to thank Chaz, for, well, everything one person can thank another for.

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      You suddenly realize the value of friendships. People that you thought would always stick around and be there for you suddenly stop calling, and eventually drop off the face of the earth. However you establish new connections with other parents and people that understand. I have learned to value these new friendships and have come to realize that they are worth more than anything else in this world.

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      Chapter 1

      Questioning Everything

      There can’t be a precise way to describe the feelings that sweep over you as you are told your child/children have autism. You feel utter hopelessness, confusion is often felt as well. More than anything it seems, in the beginning, parents seem to feel denial. It seems easier to argue against it in their head while looking for reasons the doctor was wrong than it is to accept it. Then they tend to feel the most dominant feeling, they became angry.

      In my case I was angry at my husband for not understanding my stress, with the doctor for not being more thorough in explaining what autism was to mad, at the school system for never mentioning it to me even though it seemed quite obvious that they knew; most of all I felt angry with myself. I mean, come on, I’m supposed to know my son better than anyone and I couldn’t figure this out. I was angry because this had to be my fault. Angry because it was like they were telling me that I did something wrong. Angry that it felt like all my hopes and dreams for my child were ruined, ripped away from me during an hour long appointment.

      There are a number of spectrum parents that felt the

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