Title: Living with Jonathan SubTitle: Lessons in Love, Life and Autism Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers Pub Date: September 13, 2012 ISBN: 9781780283838 Author: Sheila Barton Category: NONFICTION - ADULT: Family & Home: Family & Relationships: Parenting Format: Paperback Publication Date: September 13, 2012 ISBN: 9781780283838 |
Sheila Barton has worked as a teacher and lecturer as well as a senior manager in various national charities. She has been on the executive council of the National Autistic Society and is an experienced public speaker. Sheila has taken part in TV and live radio interviews on autism. Her many articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Educational Supplement and elsewhere. She and her son have been featured in Take a Break, the Bath Chronicle and Communication (the magazine of the National Autistic Society).
LIVING WITH JONATHAN: Lessons in Love, Life and Autism is Sheila Barton's memoir of the adventures, trials, and lesssons learned in raising her middle child, Jonathan. Ms. Barton spent her sons's childhood and teen years in search of the right school and care for him. She describes his autism and the effects on their family life with honesty and candor, avoiding the sentimentality so often found in books on this subject. The book spans the years between his birth and the present, in his late twenties.
The author's honesty makes this book a good read. She doesn't flinch from telling the truth regarding the effect of his disability on her, his siblings, and her marriage. I really appreciated the fact that her children resented "Rain Man" because it gave the public the wrong idea about autism. Although it has obviously been difficult through the years, the author manages to find humor in situations, which lightens the mood for the reader. The drawback was the author's style of bouncing back and forth between time periods without warning. I often had to go back and reread paragraphs (sometimes pages) to figure out what was going on and when.
I was going to recommend this book to anyone with an autistic child, or to anyone whose friend had an autistic child, but the truth is this book would be very educational to the general public. More people need a clearer understanding of this problem.
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