Author: Grandin, Temple; Author: With Scariano, Margaret M.
Warner Books Edition; Paperback
180 pages
Published: December 1986
Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 0446671827

A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her 'normal' school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the quiet strength of one woman who insisted on a miracle.The author describes her struggle to overcome autism and lead a normal life, and discusses her feelings of anxiety and isolation.