Living on the Spectrum Autism and Youth in Community

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“Living on the Spectrum is written in an engaging, readable, and sometimes poetic style, which enhances its ability to reach a diverse audience beyond medical anthropologists interested in autism.”– “Medical Anthropology Quarterly”

“An amazing book–beautifully written, brilliantly conceived, precisely observed. The combination of an anthropologist’s eye and a clinician’s sensibility creates remarkable insight. Anyone interested in autism should read it.”–Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

“An extraordinary journey into the lives of autistic youth. Fein’s empathic understanding of autism jumps from every page of this beautiful and intelligent book, as we learn how autistic people produce their own knowledge and ways of being, stake out their place as agents rather than as patients, and resist being passive recipients of clinical or quantitative labels.”–Roy Richard Grinker, author of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism