Hope for helpless mother like me

After reading a number of "What is autism?" books, I still cannot get any reassurance about how my autistic 4-year-old boy faces his future. But this book brings light and hope to me. The author's personal sharing & indepth explaination about what she faced before show me what my boy needs to conquer in his life.

I don't know much about the technical terms or scientific stuffs in autism, but I do know that I need to walk with my boy in his developmental path. This book gives me both emotional support and technical information about what I need to know.

My husband doesn't like those "what is autism?" books (maybe he doesn't like those who want to earn money in this topic) but he does read this one and even discuss with me in details about what our boy may be facing.

I highly recommend this book to the parents of autistic kids.

Inspirational

This book opened up my eyes to what life might be like with autism. Temple Grandin has an amazing honesty and a commendable willingness to share her world. To any parent/caregiver who is looking for information about autism, I would recommend this book along with Tanis Morran's "A Place Within the Sphere" as the best starting point on the way to gaining a broad understanding of how different, challenging and wonderful life can be for these people. How much there is to learn from these amazing people!

From the inside looking out

Grandin gives everyone a looooong overdue report of what Autism is like from the autistic point of view and hopefully will blow the old stereotypes out of the water. Most people either think of autistics as either severely retarded or overly smart but helpless, like the Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rain Main." The truth is that there are many autistics out there, some undiagnosed, who function in the real world. Every autistic "expert" should read this book along with parents and teachers of autistics. Highly recommend