num_pages: 287
description: Fantastic read. A heartwarming plot. Terrific medical thriller.This story touched my heart. So worth reading.Was so interested in this autism novel that I decided not to take my sleeping meds so I could finish it last night. I reluctantly read the last page at 2 a.m. I didn't want it to end.Impossible to read the last chapter without a tear...or at least a lump in your throat.Special needs parents concerned with autism or Aspergers syndrome will cherish this book.In an age (late 1960s and early 1970s) when charlatans and medical quacks reigned in the treatment of autism and when refrigerator mothers were blamed for the disorder Peggy Raintree a courageous mother refuses to believe the myth that she caused her sons autism by rejecting him at the breastso she sets out to find her own answers. But will she be prevented from using her creative new ideas to reach her strange little boy? And will he ever be able to show her his true face?Peggy deals with the pressures in her life with strength and grace and even in her darkest moments never loses sight of her goals. She is not perfect either as a parent or spouse but she is warm clear-thinking and brave.The incidences of autism have skyrocketed in the last twenty years. This novel dramatizes the struggle to understand this phenomenon. It explores the foolish medical myths of the last forty years as well as the roots of the promising new ideas that have helped hundreds of boys and girls with autism in recent years.Very few books have the power to make me weep but the last scene with Billy made me bawl.Autism fiction at its best....Legal drama--family court. I learned so much.
language: English
title: Show Me Your Face
publisher: None