Living the Good Life With Autism

✍ Scribed by Edgar Schneider

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

His discovery only in retirement that he has high-functioning autism provided Edgar Schneider at last with an explanation for his many differences, explored in Discovering my Autism. In this book he takes up the story, telling of his marriage to a like-minded woman, and of the day-to-day realities of life with this condition. His description of autistic attitudes towards relationships, politics, theology and health are rich and original. Schneider argues that if people with high functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome are left to their own devices they are capable of making lives for themselves that are rich and rewarding.

✦ Table of Contents

Living the Good Life with Autism......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Prologue......Page 11
Opinions:Some Reinforced,Some Modified......Page 15
The nature of autism......Page 17
The autistic spectrum......Page 18
The pitfalls of using ‘traits’ to profile......Page 20
Explanations of some autistic traits......Page 24
Possible causes of autism......Page 30
Emotions:Theirs and Ours......Page 33
The physiology of love......Page 34
On the topic of mating rituals......Page 37
When is love unconditional?......Page 42
A short clarifying comment......Page 44
How we met......Page 45
Personal difficulties I had to overcome......Page 47
The story continues......Page 49
A time of decision......Page 51
About marriage......Page 53
Complementary compatibilities......Page 55
A new career......Page 57
An admitted error......Page 59
My first crisis......Page 62
Alix’s crisis......Page 66
My second crisis......Page 72
One God? Why not many?......Page 77
Worshiping the Devil......Page 79
Why God puts people to the test......Page 82
How could God be so cruel to his own son?......Page 83
Judgement......Page 85
Fundamentalism and religion......Page 87
Having or changing a religion......Page 90
Some Thoughts on Political Topics......Page 94
Democracy......Page 95
The rise and fall of civilizations......Page 96
Politics and religion......Page 100
The power, and limits, of government......Page 104
Social classes......Page 106
A ‘cure’ for autism?......Page 109
Problems encountered in the world......Page 112
The worst part of my autism......Page 121
Self-image and self-acceptance......Page 123
A Light-Hearted Epilogue......Page 126
Appendix A Ed’s Recipes......Page 128
Appendix B Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29......Page 143
Appendix C Widmung......Page 144
Appendix D Metaphysics and Ethics......Page 146
Appendix E Lexicon of Situational Ethics......Page 151
References......Page 154