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Title: Diagnosing Jefferson by Norm Ledgin, Temple Grandin ISBN: 1-885477-60-0 Publisher: Future Horizons Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Provocative insight into Jefferson and Asperger's Syndrome
Comment: Norm Ledgin's Diagnosing Jefferson is a "heavy" read, thoroughly researched in academic fashion. It discusses the many, many traits and quirks that have puzzled all major Jefferson historians for years...and Ledgin has finally tackled the only possible answer for such behavior and attitudes. The book also gives an excellent overview of just what is Asperger's Syndrome. The point of the book is well-taken by those who have children with Asperger's, i.e. "look what you can grow up to be; Asperger's doesn't have to be a detriment, but rather an asset." More such splendid role models are sure to be found in the future. Others suspected of having Asperger's: Microsoft's Bill Gates, artist Vincent Van Gogh, publisher Joseph Pulitzer, late comedian Andy Kaufman....Diagnosing Jefferson is a "must-read" for Jefferson historians as well as those looking for inspiration in understanding and developing the special talents of those with Asperger's.
Rating: 5
Summary: Personally Inspiring
Comment: This book has meant a lot to me as a teenager with an Asperger condition.
My Dad called my attention to it and said jokingly, "Maybe you'll learn a little history." But I also learned about myself, reading about so many things that bothered Tom Jefferson that also bothered me. Thanks to this book, they don't bother me anywhere near as much as they used to.
I'm proud we shared many of the same "quirks."
Rating: 5
Summary: Flat-earth critics?
Comment: I don't understand where some of the critics of Mr. Ledgin's work are coming from. They overlook that he confessed at the outset he was dealing with secondary sources--principally because so many biographers seemed mystified by Jefferson's eccentric behavior.
Mr. Ledgin took their observations and summed them up in the only credible way that authoritative scientific literature supports Jefferson's range of quirks--an observational conclusion of the presence of Asperger's Syndrome, which is on the autism spectrum.
What seems to bother his critics most is the reference to autism, and that's because they're also overlooking the oddities of the Randolph family (Jefferson's mother's family) and failing to understand the high-to-low functioning spectrum of autism.
Are they also implying autism didn't exist until modern scientists isolated and defined it, therefore Jefferson couldn't have had it? That's like accepting that the planet Earth was flat until it was proven to be round.
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Title: Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome by Liane Holliday Willey, Tony Attwood ISBN: 1853027499 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub Pub. Date: 15 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Thinking In Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin ISBN: 0679772898 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Asperger's and Self-Esteem: Insight and Hope through Famous Role Models by Norm Ledgin, Dr. Temple Grandin ISBN: 1885477856 Publisher: Future Horizons Pub. Date: 16 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence by Luke Jackson, Tony Attwood ISBN: 1843100983 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Emergence:Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin ISBN: 0446671827 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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