num_pages: 256
description: Confessional and often hilarious in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer advocate and father meditates on his life offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeedJonathan Mooney blends anecdote expertise and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learnindividually uniquely and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve the realization that that he wasnt the problemthe system and the concept of normal weresaved Mooneys life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when theyre trapped in environments that label them shame them and tell them even in subtle ways that they are the problem. But he argues if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity abilities and disabilities we can start a revolution.A highly sought after public speaker Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story and his message for nearly two decades. Now hes ready to share what hes learned from parents educators researchers and kids in a book that is as much a survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart insightful and utterly inspiringand movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons as they work to find their ways in the worldthis book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.
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title: Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.