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By Pete Palamountain
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Customer tags: autism drama, autism novel, family drama, courageous mother, handicap children, asperbers syndrome, autism history, autism fiction, autism, aspergers, family issues, autism spectrum
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SHOW ME YOUR FACE -- 400 print pages, 86,000 words
In an age (late 1960’s and early 1970’s) when charlatans and quacks reigned in the treatment of autism, and when “refrigerator mothers” were blamed for the disorder, Peggy Raintree, a brave young mother, refuses to believe the myth that she caused her son’s condition by rejecting him at the breast—so she sets out to find her own answers. But will she be prevented from using her creative, new ideas to reach her strange little boy? And will he ever be able to show her his true face?
Peggy deals with the pressures in her life with strength and grace, and even in her darkest moments never loses sight of her goals. She is not perfect, either as a parent or spouse, but she is warm, clear-thinking, and brave.
The incidences of autism have skyrocketed in the last twenty years. This novel dramatizes the struggle to understand this phenomenon. It explores the foolish medical ignorance of the last forty years as well as the roots of the promising new ideas that have helped hundreds of autistic boys and girls in recent years.SHOW ME YOUR FACE -- 400 print pages, 86,000 words
In an age (late 1960’s and early 1970’s) when charlatans and quacks reigned in the treatment of autism, and when “refrigerator mothers” were blamed for the disorder, Peggy Raintree, a brave young mother, refuses to believe the myth that she caused her son’s condition by rejecting him at the breast—so she sets out to find her own answers. But will she be prevented from using her creative, new ideas to reach her strange little boy? And will he ever be able to show her his true face?
Peggy deals with the pressures in her life with strength and grace, and even in her darkest moments never loses sight of her goals. She is not perfect, either as a parent or spouse, but she is warm, clear-thinking, and brave.
The incidences of autism have skyrocketed in the last twenty years. This novel dramatizes the struggle to understand this phenomenon. It explores the foolish medical ignorance of the last forty years as well as the roots of the promising new ideas that have helped hundreds of autistic boys and girls in recent years. Read more
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