false 764401 1 <B>A testament to uncommon devotion and common possibilities. </B><BR><BR>"Why would someone adopt a badly abused, nonspeaking, six-year-old from foster care?" So the author was asked at the outset of his adoption-as-a-first-resort adventure. Part love story, part political manifesto about "living with conviction in a cynical time," the memoir traces the development of DJ, a boy written off as profoundly retarded and now, six years later, earning all "A's" at a regular school. Neither a typical saga of autism nor simply a challenge to expert opinion, <I>Reasonable People</I> illuminates the belated emergence of a self in language. And it does so using DJ's own words, expressed through the once discredited but now resurgent technique of facilitated communication. In this emotional page-turner, DJ reconnects with the sister from whom he was separated, begins to type independently, and explores his experience of disability, poverty, abandonment, and sexual abuse. "Try to remember my life," he says on his talking computer, and remember he does in the most extraordinarily perceptive and lyrical way.<BR><BR>Asking difficult questions about the nature of family, the demise of social obligation, and the meaning of neurological difference, Savarese argues for a reasonable commitment to human possibility and caring. 750477 22 5 2007 Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption: On the Meaning of Family and the Politics of Neurological Difference total:52|5:1|4:0|3:0|2:0|1:0| 52 208 97 16 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 10 11:59:32 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 06 13:27:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 21 18:11:30 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 18:14:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 27 15:41:41 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:45:02 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 06:22:53 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 10:07:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 31 16:06:45 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 16:57:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 06:52:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 06:55:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 20:17:24 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 20:17:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 08:47:45 -0700 2007 Tue May 27 07:44:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 21:23:30 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 09:23:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 11:33:49 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 19:08:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 21:49:03 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 09:02:45 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Fri Sep 21 02:03:38 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 02:05:43 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 20:09:29 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 20:10:22 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Fri Jul 06 10:28:21 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 10:28:48 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 28 20:15:02 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 20:16:40 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 04 11:58:49 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 11:59:11 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 11:19:49 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:19:49 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 17:45:54 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 17:45:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 18 11:36:09 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 11:36:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 15 22:50:13 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 22:50:13 -0700 2009