Tim Page: Parallel Play
Pulitzer-Winner on Living with Asperger's an interview with Tim Page. He's a middle aged man with a 7 year old Asperger's diagnosis. He's also a Pulitzer prize winning music critic.
He explained that he flunked and flunked and flunked things his teachers were trying to teach him, but he taught himself about many things he was interested in: "It was an unusual boyhood and I thought perhaps writing about t would be helpful to other people with the same characteristics."
He wrote: Parrallel play, a lifetime of restless isolation for a recent New Yorker magazine issue. Here is the abstract from New Yorker website.
Autism Diva
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He explained that he flunked and flunked and flunked things his teachers were trying to teach him, but he taught himself about many things he was interested in: "It was an unusual boyhood and I thought perhaps writing about t would be helpful to other people with the same characteristics."
He wrote: Parrallel play, a lifetime of restless isolation for a recent New Yorker magazine issue. Here is the abstract from New Yorker website.
Autism Diva
rhomboid






4 Comments:
Thanks for the link!!!
Hi I have just set up a new web site Aspergers Parallel Planet http://www.asplanet.info/. A personal perspective on Asperger's syndrome, "this site is about my journey and to celebrate and share all the good, positive and wonderful things about having Aspergers, and to help raise awareness of ASD.
I truly love your blog and wanted to ask if can attach to my site.
Kind Regards
Alyson Bradley
nzalyson@yahoo.co.nz
I just read Tim Page's "Parallel Play" in the August 20 New Yorker. I cried he touched me so deeply. Thank you, Tim, for explaining yourself so well. You see what others overlook or take for granted!
Mary Richards-Kallman
mrkallman@charter.net
The article is now posted in full at the link! It's a fascinating read.
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