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| Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence | |
| Author: | Luke Jackson |
| Country: | England |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Asperger Syndrome |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Publisher: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Pub Date: | 15 August 2002 |
| Media Type: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-84310-098-0 |
| Followed By: | Crystalline Lifetime: Fragments of Asperger Syndrome |
Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence is a non-fiction book about Asperger syndrome published in 2003. The then 13-year-old author, Luke Jackson, has Asperger syndrome himself. Jackson wrote the book because he felt there was not enough useful information on the Internet about the subject.[1]
Jackson is the son of fellow writer Jacqui Jackson, and most of his siblings have similar difficulties.[2]
David Worling of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry said that the book is filled with valuable information and is useful to have in a clinical library.[3]
The book received first place in Times Educational Supplement awards in 2003 for special educational needs books.[4]
About the same time as Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome, Jackson wrote A User Guide to the GF/CF Diet: For Autism, Asperger Syndrome and ADHD.[5]
Jackson has written a column on the BBC's ouch!.. it's a disability thing.[6]
In 2016, Jackson wrote a sequel to Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome, Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome (ASD): A User Guide to Adulthood.[7]
Jackson has written a poetry book titled Crystalline Lifetime: Fragments of Asperger's Syndrome, (2006).[8]