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American normal

the hidden world of Asperger syndrome

By Osborne, Lawrence

Publishers Summary:
"In this highly personal first-hand report on the world of the "mindblind," Lawrence Osborne doesn't shy away from hard questions: Just how different from the "normal" are those with Asperger's, and is it possible that most of us have more than a few of its characteristics already woven into our psyches? Setting aside the humdrum pieties of medicine and rehabilitation, Osborne casts a skeptical and witty eye on the American psychiatric establishment and its tendency to over-diagnose, then over-medicate. And even more, he ventures into the elusive but essential realm where one has to question the difference between tolerating eccentricity - with all its potential for creativity as well as suffering - and pharmacologically enforcing normality, with its undertones of blandness, uniformity, and mediocrity."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

978-0-38795-307-6

Publisher

New York : Copernicus Books, c2002.