My Life on This Planet: A Letterboard Speller's Revolutionary Insights into the Paradox of Autism

An invaluable resource for anyone interested in developing a deeper understanding of the autism enigma.Lina Hjalmarsson Lyons’s clarity about her own autism experience confronts the reader with the confusing anomalies inherent in this complex condition. “I think it’s so hard for people to incorporate the paradox of autism,” she writes. “I think that life with someone on the severe end of the spectrum is a life full of suffering and a life full of bliss.” Spelling out her thoughts on letter boards, with her mother, Helena Hjalmarsson, as her communication partner, this young, bright author describes everything she remembers about the terrifying experience of regressing into autism when she was 3 ½ years old, losing her ability to speak, and becoming severely dysregulated and disorganized.Her writing brings the brutal as well as blissful mystical realities of autism into broad day-light and will enlighten anyone who wants to understand their child, client, or student on the spectrum.It w