"... Insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!" - Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in Pictures <p/>"An extraordinary look at autism from the inside - by turns heartbreaking, uplifting, illuminating, witty, and wise." - Steve Silberman, author, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity <p/>Barbara Moran has never known how to be good. <p/>As a child, she made strange noises, fidgeted constantly, and licked her lips until they cracked. She had "upsets" that embarrassed and frustrated her family. Worse still, she developed friendships with inanimate objects--everything from roller skates to tables to an antique refrigerator--and became obsessed with images of cathedrals. <p/>She was institutionalized, analyzed, and marginalized, cast aside as not trying hard enough to fit in. <p/>But after almost forty years, Barbara was given an answer for her inability to be like, and to connect with, other people: autism. <p/>Hello, Stranger is the story of a misunderstood life that serves as an eye-opening call for compassion. Bracingly honest, Barbara describes the profound loneliness of being abandoned and judged while also expressing her deep yearning simply to be loved and to give love. <p/>Hello, Stranger is a challenge to every reader to see the beauty and the humanity present in every individual. <p/>
