Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines - Jonathan Mooney
Category: Humor
Tags: Humor, Autobiography & Biographies
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 succeed, Jonathan 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 didnt 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
