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"“Love has always intrigued me,” writes autistic author Kay Kerr, “in part
because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am doing love wrong.”
Kerr is the author of two young adult novels with autistic protagonists. In her
third book,
Love and Autism, she returns to her journalist foundations to
explore how love and autism shape each other.
The book is supported by a significant amount of research, but its heft is in
the life stories of five autistic Australians: Jess, Chloe, Noor, Tim and
Michael. While the book shows they all have experiences in common, each has a
cultural point of difference from the others: Jess is a lesbian, Noor is from
Malaysia, Chloe has an autistic partner, Tim is nonspeaking, and Michael is
from a regional area.
Three of the five might already be known to readers. Noor writes about being
autistic and Muslim. Tim has given a TED Talk and published a book,
Back from
the Brink. And Michael appeared in the first series of
Love on the Spectrum.
Through interviews with Kerr, each narrates their experience of the many types
of love that have inflected their daily lives, from childhood through to
adulthood."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
