parallel lives of people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome

"... My life in a constant state of parallel have been issued, in addition, but much of the rest of humanity." With this statement, Tim Page, with Asperger's syndrome diagnosed at the age of forty-five, his life written description. In this autobiographical tale, Mr. Page writes for growth, to feel deeply all the time and realize that it was different. People said it was a genius because he could not remember tickets, bus routes and knew all the parts of the heartWorld Book Encyclopedia. He spent hours drawing detailed maps of cities and writing fiction stories without a happy ending. He talked and cared for inanimate objects, his stuffed animals were his best friends.

All my life I felt embarrassed Tim Page. He did not feel fit in. He could not easily or effectively in relation to his fellow social class, could not connect. Tim felt much better than adults or younger children.

In a veryinitially, was the music that brought him from a music critic for various newspapers and finally, the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Even at an early age he became obsessed with silent films. The obsession led to the life of actors and actresses and creative writing up stories explore actors and actresses. In sixth grade, Tim bought some 8mm film, has given his father's home movie camera, wrote scripts and directed the film with the neighborhoodKids.

Tim felt relieved from a distance and not very close to her father. But in the packaging of files of his father when the family decided to move, read the contents of some files, and Tim has discovered a letter that he was not aware that his father had been in his job for nine years, when he was in 7. Class written. The letter was written against a set of discipline problems at school, and the penalty on Tim. In reading the letter was as exciting as he and Tim madeacutely felt the love of the Father. She said she wants her father could have "a tender emotion that" he was informed at the time of the accident.

Mr. Page refers vividly the confusion and turmoil experienced and felt during the years of high school, which eventually fall. Finally, through the efforts and the help of a music teacher was able to successfully Tim with his life.

Now in his fifties, is Tim Page, the terms "odd." When he sawback in time, while writing his life story, he realized that life was for him "isolated, unhappy and questioned."

Mr. autobiographical representation of full-page per minute, but growing number of detailed narratives describing the lives of people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. This well-written and fascinating autobiography integrates the knowledge base of the widest and deepest of Asperger syndrome, a specific neurological difference in some people.

Thisinformative book is highly recommended to anyone diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, families with a person with such a diagnosis, for friends of the persons so diagnosed, and for other persons in the further understanding of the lives of people diagnosed with different neurological syndrome affected Asperger.

Parallel Play by Tim Page, a professor of journalism and music Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., 2009, 197 pages