Tim Page, a Pulitzer-prize winning music writer, has an article in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine. In it, he describes his childhood; his obsessions, past and present; the frustrations of being considered a "genius," but not knowing why, and still failing all the uninteresting classes; the relief of receiving a diagnosis as an adult; and the revealed truth to be gained from reading Emily Post.
Read it here: Personal History: Parallel Play
In addition, before the article came out, he was interviewed about it, and his life, on NPR's All Things Considered, which you can listen to here: Pulitzer-Winner on Living with Asperger's.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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