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Come walk through life with a passionate, humorous, poetic and intelligent woman. Paula has the power to show you a new and wondrous world. She is autistic and non-verbal yet so articulate she can make you laugh out-loud and then cry your eyes out. If Paula's Journal does not grab your heart within just a few pages, you have no soul. The short daily journal entries give you a unique insight into Paula's world and a better understanding of autism and what it is like to walk beside you in life and yet separated. This is not a book about autism. It is about how an autistic woman sees her life, her family, her surroundings, her faith, and the goodness and cruelty of others. It is not written by a professional, parent, or observer. It is a book written by a woman with autism showing you her world from the inside out. Author, Stephanie Marks, writes from experience. She is autistic and non-verbal. She shares her life experience with you in a fictional biography. Details maybe fictional but Paula's thoughts and feelings are the author's. Paula takes you into the world of autism, panic attacks, no spoken words, and discrimination. Paula also takes you into places where you recognize as your own and know you have felt the same way she does. She is a poet. Her words will take you places you have never been before. No one can read this book and not be changed.
About the Author: Stephanie Marks meets the challenges of autism every day of her life. She is non-verbal and uses a laborious communication method called facilitated communication. Ms. Marks also faces the Paula's Journal: Surviving Autism is an amazing window into the life of a young woman with Autism. The short daily journal entries give readers a better understanding of how Paula interprets her world and how others can better understand Autism. Some journal entries are so poignant they make the reader tear up and others are so humorous the reader will laugh out loud. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know more about Autism from the personal perspective.frustration of having sever panic attacks. As a child, Ms. Marks had very limited communication skills. When she was eighteen she learned facilitated communication from a family friend who studied at Syracuse University. Paula's Journal is fiction. However, Paula's thoughts and feelings are not. They are the author's. Read Paula's Journal and you enter the author's world of autism, no words, and panic attacks. You will finish this book a changed person. Ms. Marks also writes poetry and children's books. She and her brother collaborate on songs. One of her songs, "Four Generations", can be heard at www.reverbnation.com/whatif. Stephanie Marks resides in Bentonville, Arkansas, with her beloved dog, Katie.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781470101695
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 177 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1470101696
  • Publisher Date: 23 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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