I'm not broken, I'm just different and Wings to fly: An Asperger's story COMPILATION

by Linda Ruth Brooks

“Bronson uses his hands with manly pride. There is precision in his movements. He is deliberate, slow and meticulous. We chat as he asks for the tools, smiling as I hand them to him as if he were a surgeon. Then, task finished, he stands back to survey his handiwork. Bronson has started a training course. He has a job. He’s a working class man. Now he moves in the world of men and machines, strangers and family alike, with satisfaction and humour - living beyond a minimal life. Given ‘wings to fly’.”

Brooks continues the journey with her son, Bronson, with life after ‘I’m not broken, I’m just different’. She includes some untold earlier stories. The book includes several chapters by Professor Tony Attwood on the future of Asperger's, which brings hope.
There is a view into the fearless flight of her son into manhood, past interviews with friends and specialists, which give an intimate window into their lives and also a selection of posters.
Brooks brings warmth, passion and wit to life once more, as we gain insights into her life with her son, and ultimately awareness of this misunderstood syndrome. The beauty of this edition is it’s triumph.

'compelling, witty, audacious'

332 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 13, 2012

About the author

Like many authors Linda found a love of reading early in life. Life has many journeys and Linda was drawn to nursing. Linda watched and listened to the rich fabric of the lives of others, fascinated by their stories from the ordinary to the extraordinary. When her youngest son was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, Linda found a focus for her writing. Determined to fight for the spirit and heart of her son, and the chance for a normal life for him she wrote I'm Not Broken, I'm Just Different, Callan the Chameleon (A childrens' book) and then addressed adult Asperger's in Wings to fly.

Many of Linda's short stories were featured on the ABC TV website, 'The Making of Modern Australia'. Linda gained an avid readership there. She caught the eye of a publisher and 'A Curious & Inelegant Childhood' - a memoir of growing up in rural Australian in the Fifties and Sixties, was the result. Behind Whispering Hands was Linda's debut fiction novella. She has written prolifically on many topics in both fiction and nonfiction, as Linda Ruth Brooks Publishing, she has published several anthologies as with other Australian authors. A fine artist, Linda has also written and illustrated several children's books.