Rachel B. (travnray) reviewed Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome on + 182 more book reviews
This one kinda "fell into my hands" as oppossed to the other autism books that I have intensely searched out. It was. . . okay. I very much enjoyed the parts about Elijah, the child with autism, but that's only about half of the content of this book. The author intermittently, throughout the entire book, tells stories about other people in history who have shown autisitc tendencies: Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol and Andy Kaufman, just to name a few. I felt that those parts were interrupting a perfectly good story. I have a child with autism and I wanted to relate to the child, not read about famous adults who day dreamed in second grade.
Although, there was a very interesting (and at the same time disturbing,) chapter about people who became pediatric psychologists just so that they could have access to these "weak" children and then prescribe them medications to kill them. Their aim was to "clean up America's gene pool". Pretty scary stuff if it's true.
Although, there was a very interesting (and at the same time disturbing,) chapter about people who became pediatric psychologists just so that they could have access to these "weak" children and then prescribe them medications to kill them. Their aim was to "clean up America's gene pool". Pretty scary stuff if it's true.
