susan n said:

“I remember reading this book fourteen years ago when my autistic son was a year and a half. What stayed with me was how flexible and adaptable the human mind is and how we can compensate in ways that have added dimension we would never know if we were all the same. This gave and still gives me hope. My son is now sixteen and is still severely autistic but Oliver Sacks book stays with me and I very often focus on the gifts of his own communication which is rich in its own way.”

posted Wednesday, January 23 2008