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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Then and Now
Chapter 2. When Medications Do Harm
Medication Withdrawal and Other Delights
Daily Interdose Withdrawals
Heightened Sensory Sensitivity
Recovering from Benzodiazepines
Chapter 3. How I Hear
My Auditory Difficulties
Visual Hearing and Frequencies That Fade Out
Auditory Patterning
Auditory Closure
Binaural Interaction
Binaural Integration
My Auditory Processing Continues to Go Awry
The Good News
The Bad News
Vocal Tones and Verbal Conversation
Moving Forward
Chapter 4. Adapting to Life with a Disability
Strategizing with Auditory Difficulties
Learning about Alternative Communication Technologies
Text Relay Service
Text-to-Text Devices
Using Visual Strategies to Sequence Tasks
Freeing Up Energy: Developing My Sense of Direction
On Difficulty and Disability
Chapter 5. Adventures in Self-Advocacy
Chasing Away Childhood Demons
Meeting the Challenges of the Autism Discourse
Defending My Psyche: On Doubt and the Doubters
Protecting Myself in a World of Guile
Requesting Accommodations: Lessons Learned on Vacation
Putting Together a Self-Advocacy Checklist
Advocating for Accommodations at Work
Disability Rights Activism: Acting for Others, Acting for Self
Working with Others on the Autism Spectrum
Speaking Out in My Local Community
Engaging with Severely Disabled Young People
Chapter 6. Deconstructing Cultural Attitudes about Disability
Struggling with Internalized Ableism
Embracing the Social Model of Disability
The Misleading Nature of the Deficit Model
On Puzzles, Privilege, and Missing Pronouns
Autism, Disability, and the Obligation to Get Well
Disorder in Society, Disorder in Self
Neurodiversity, Grief, and the Normal Minority
The Loss of the Idealized Normal Self or Idealized Normal Child
Leaving Behind One’s Own Normality
Feeling Frightened about the Autistic Child’s Future
So What Do We Do?
Chapter 7. On My Solitary Way
Bibliography
I am indebted to several people for their support during the writing of this book.
For his careful peer review of my manuscript, I thank Bob Rottenberg.
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Running errands. I once cringed at the idea of running…an…an…an…errand. The possibility of auditory overload made me very anxious. But now, I look forward to going out and about. I like going to the post office, the bank, the art supplies store, the hardware store, and any other place without loud music cranked up. I use my earplugs for running errands, mainly to keep out competing sounds that my auditory system has to work too hard to process and manage. But if I have a question or need to pay for my items, I can converse.
Going to appointments. When I have an appointment, sometimes talking works and sometimes it doesn’t. Everything depends upon the level of ambient noise, whether the other person is in a rush and talking quickly, how many people are in the room and participating in the conversation, and whether I have time to take notes and ask for clarification.
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