Normal sucks : how to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines / Jonathan Mooney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: 240 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250190161
  • 1250190169
Other title:
  • How to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.9/084092 23
LOC classification:
  • HV1568 .M65 2019
Contents:
Not normal -- Normal hasn't always been normal -- Abnormal -- Normed -- Act normal -- Normal people suck -- The new normal -- Normal people are people you don't know very well.
Summary: A writer diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD as a child explores the toll the system takes on kids who are not "normal" and advocates for a revolution in the way society thinks about diversity, abilities, and disabilities.Summary: Mooney was a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve. The realization that he wasn't the problem-- the system and the concept of normal were-- saved Mooney's life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they're trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them that they are the problem. He argues that if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution. -- adapted from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237).

A writer diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD as a child explores the toll the system takes on kids who are not "normal" and advocates for a revolution in the way society thinks about diversity, abilities, and disabilities.

Not normal -- Normal hasn't always been normal -- Abnormal -- Normed -- Act normal -- Normal people suck -- The new normal -- Normal people are people you don't know very well.

Mooney was a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve. The realization that he wasn't the problem-- the system and the concept of normal were-- saved Mooney's life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they're trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them that they are the problem. He argues that if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution. -- adapted from jacket

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