PDF⋙ Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures by Lucy Blackman
Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures by Lucy Blackman Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures by Lucy Blackman PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Born with Autism, Lucy could not understand much of what was said around her. Her own language came later from newspapers and books. She created stories and poems in her head from the words she had read. As an adult she still barely speaks. In her teens she started using a keyboard with someone touching her arm, but that was not a substitute for ordinary speech. Lucy's language had developed in a world of her own making in which she had never passed on information to someone else. Even today she does not answer questions in the same way as other people. Lucy's ambition was to write a book. She went to High School. She wrote letters and essays, learnt how to explain herself and began to create characters in her stories. While writing she started to understand her own autism, and through that understanding she came t...