9781250190161-1250190169-Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

ISBN-13: 9781250190161
ISBN-10: 1250190169
Author: Jonathan Mooney
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781250190161
ISBN-10: 1250190169
Author: Jonathan Mooney
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines (ISBN-13: 9781250190161 and ISBN-10: 1250190169), written by authors Jonathan Mooney, was published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other People with Disabilities (Specific Groups, Personality, Psychology & Counseling, Education Theory, Schools & Teaching) books. You can easily purchase or rent Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used People with Disabilities books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.33.

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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 learn―individually, 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 wasn’t the problem―the system and the concept of normal were―saved Mooney’s life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re 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 he’s ready to share what he’s 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 inspiring―and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons, as they work to find their ways in the world―this book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.

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