the small outsider Author:joan martin hundley From the time that David was conceived, Joan Hundley felt that something was irrevocably wrong. Her feeling grew with his first unresponsive days in the hospital and through two and a half hellish, exhausting years until he was diagnosed as a victim of autism- a disorderof unknown origin and no known cure. Its main symptoms were an apparent unaw... more »areness of his own identity, an inability to from emotional relationship with outhers, an apparent lack of normal vision and hearing, and the failure to acquire normal patterns of speech.« less