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Journeying through Life with Autism : The Life Stories of the Parents Edna Mishori This book is about parenting as a life journey that is intertwined with the world of autism as well as with the particular challenge it involves . This is not merely a story about parenting , but also a story about how human beings cope with what they experience during their lifetime . Fifteen parents - mothers and fathers - tell their stories of life and parenting over a period of some five decades during personal meetings with the author , who is also one of them . They are not " literary heroes " , and their stories do not belong to the genre of heroic tales , yet through them , the important things in human life - intense and occasionally conflicting emotions - are expressed : dreams and expectations versus painful losses ; mourning and loneliness versus friendship and cooperation ; despair and total ; exhaustion versus renewal and development ; anger versus gratitude a desperate quest for answers an...
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