Strange Son
Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
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A light in the darkness for severely troubled children, former special education teacher Torey Hayden faced three of her most extraordinary challenges after she left the classroom. Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cans - a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior, whose hard-won recollections of the nightmare she endured could not be fully trusted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it.
- De Lace M. Jackson en 06-23-17
De: Torey Hayden
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A Stitch of Time
- The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
- De: Lauren Marks
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Lauren Marks was 27 when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. She woke up in a hospital soon after with serious deficiencies to her reading, speaking, and writing abilities, and an unfamiliar diagnosis: aphasia. This would be shocking news for anyone, but Lauren was a voracious reader, an actress, director, dramaturg, and pursuing her PhD. At any other period of her life, this diagnosis would have been a devastating blow. But she woke up...different.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely wonderful book
- De SJMT en 01-27-19
De: Lauren Marks
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much
- A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
- De: Jennifer Latson
- Narrado por: Heather Auden
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, making him irrepressibly friendly, indiscriminately trusting, and unconditionally loving toward everyone he meets. It also makes him enormously vulnerable. Eli lacks the innate skepticism that will help his peers navigate adolescence more safely - and vastly more successfully.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Williams Syndrome
- De Sharlotte en 09-20-19
De: Jennifer Latson
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Born on a Blue Day
- A Memoir
- De: Daniel Tammet
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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One of the world's 50 living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story and explain how his incredible mind works. Worldwide, there are fewer than 50 living savants, those autistic individuals who can perform miraculous mental calculations or artistic feats. (Think Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man.) None of them has been able to discuss his or her thought processes, much less write a book. Until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ordinary Life Through Unordinary Eyes
- De J. C. AZ en 05-09-07
De: Daniel Tammet
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Life, Animated
- A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
- De: Ron Suskind
- Narrado por: Ron Suskind
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life, Animated ... is Love, Animated *****
- De Tom T. Rumble en 04-12-14
De: Ron Suskind
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Language Arts
- De: Stephanie Kallos
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language. Lately, however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic son who's about to age out of the system, he prefers the company of the ghosts he turns up in the storage boxes in his crawl space.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The beauty of the broken
- De SJ Evans en 04-27-18
De: Stephanie Kallos
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The Coincidence Makers
- A Novel
- De: Yoav Blum
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just a random occurrence? What if it's all part of a bigger plan? What if there's no such thing as a chance encounter? What if there are people we don't know determining our destiny? And what if they are even planning the fate of the world? Enter the Coincidence Makers - Guy, Emily, and Eric - three seemingly ordinary people who work for a secret organization devoted to creating and carrying out coincidences. What the rest of the world sees as random occurrences, are, in fact, carefully orchestrated events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Gal Wolff en 07-31-18
De: Yoav Blum
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Expecting Adam
- A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
- De: Martha Beck
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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From the moment Martha and her husband, John, conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. But the dream had begun to disintegrate. Then, when their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, doctors, advisers, and friends in the Harvard community warned them not to keep the baby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True Life Fairy Tale
- De Desarae en 11-27-13
De: Martha Beck
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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Beautiful Child
- The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her
- De: Torey Hayden
- Narrado por: Susan Larkin
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 92
Hayden has chronicled experiences from her long career as a special education teacher in several books, including One Child and The Tiger's Child. Successes in this difficult and often frustrating field can be few and hard won, a fact which Hayden deftly illustrates while simultaneously offering hope and joy in small victories. This time she brings to life the story of a scruffy seven-year-old, Venus, who is so unresponsive that Hayden searches for signs of deafness, brain damage, or mental retardation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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shows how hard some teachers have to work
- De Sophie en 01-20-17
De: Torey Hayden
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The Ghost in My Brain
- How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
- De: Clark Elliott Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than he could manage.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Tedious With Moments of Insight
- De Brent en 01-17-16
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Factoring Humanity
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Novel alien first contact
- De Michael G Kurilla en 05-28-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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WWW: Wake
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy, Jennifer Van Dyck, A. C. Fellner, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great, if Incomplete, Concept
- De Seth H. Wilson en 04-14-09
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Not Fade Away
- A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
- De: Rebecca Alexander, Sascha Alper
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Alexander is a psychotherapist, a spin instructor, a volunteer, and an athlete. She is also almost completely blind, with significantly deteriorated hearing. Not Fade Away is a deeply moving exploration of the obstacles we all face-physical, psychological, and philosophical. Rebecca's story is an exquisite reminder to live each day to its fullest.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved this!
- De Daryl en 11-24-14
De: Rebecca Alexander, y otros
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The Priority List
- A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
- De: David Menasche
- Narrado por: David Menasche
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly Inspiring!!
- De Trish en 07-13-14
De: David Menasche
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Angel Lynch
- 07-09-07
AWESOME!!
What a wonderfully inspiring book. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about autism, or simply struggles with it in their own life. I found this fascinating!!
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- Woody
- 10-16-15
Read this!
Enjoyed it! A must read for anyone who has a family member who is autistic.
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- Ingrid
- 11-29-12
Meh.
Would you listen to Strange Son again? Why?
No. The author had a 'know it all' attitude, despite constantly admitting she doesn't understand how the other Mother in the book is able to teach non-verbal autistic kids to write. The whole book can be summarized like this: I know how to use this method better than the poor woman from outside the USA does. I don't know what the method is, but I think she should change it. She thinks these kids can learn even more but I don't think so. I have formed a charity so I have tons of money to use, as long as we do it my way. I told her my way is better over and over and over but she just left. Now I have to try to figure out how she does it so I can be in control. Me. Me. Meeeeeee.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Strange Son?
The thousand times the author mentions 'her' ideas came from another woman, then she proceeds to bash the other woman.
Which scene was your favorite?
When the other woman gets fed up and leaves.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I REALLY wish there was a book by Tito and/or his Mom.
Any additional comments?
Most other books on Autism are better.
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- chris
- 06-25-12
must read
Where does Strange Son rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Great book regarding a parents perspective on autism and what a parent will go through to help their child.
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- BH FL
- 07-30-09
Very Informative
If you enjoy books about how the mind works, you will enjoy this book. Imagine this: a mind that can both see and talk, but can't do both at the same time. That is what this author is battling with..the complications of the autistic mind that are beyond belief. This book gives true meaning to the expression: "There, but by the grace of God go I".
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