Recounts one young man's lifelong battle to overcome a diagnosis of severe autism and the tough challenges he and his family confronted, and describes the role of basketball in transforming his life.

Product Description: The captivating subject of Oliver Sack's Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin's personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours.Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment...read more

The author describes her life with autism and how she has used her strong visual sensibility to cope with it

An inspiring firsthand account of a courageous and determined autistic woman who makes a remarkable discovery that eventually helps her control her condition and virtually cure her disorder captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistic children and their families and describes her own struggle to overcome autism and lead a normal life. Reissue.

A mother tells how she ignored doctors' predictions about her son's fate and fought against autism to miraculously 'reach' her son, who, now a recovered adult, recounts his own perceptions of his autistic childhood. Reprint. K. PW.

The author describes her struggle to overcome autism and lead a normal life and discusses her feelings of anxiety and isolation