The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

The Journal of Best Practices

A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

2012 • 225 pages

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This book is very good. All that's good about it has already been said by others. The only concern I have is at one point David Finch references a study by Baron-Cohen that suggests Asperger's is the result of an extreme male brain. This can only feed the idea that Asperger's is a male condition or an exaggeration of male characteristics. The reason Asperger's has been described as ‘acting like a guy' is not because of an extreme male brain but because our social constructs of gender teach men to be detached and egocentric with no empathy.

January 20, 2012