Like Color to the Blind

Résumé du livre

LOVING INVOLVES EXPOSURE.  It means relinquishing control and masks and conceding to the tentative, fragile, yet beautiful state of standing emotionally naked before another human being.  Through the unique prism of Donna Williams, a woman with autism who learned to differentiate between and name her emotions for the first time in her mid-twenties, readers are taken on a journey through which they will view the universal experience of love in a wholly new way.  Like Color to the Blindis about the struggle between the will and the mind, the joys and tribulations of recognizing a soul mate when you find one, the learning to share one's feelings on the path from friendship to marriage.    In this astonishing new memoir, a woman who spent most of her life closing love out offers an intimate diary of the process of letting it in amid her ongoing struggle with autism.  Donna chronicles her unconventional relationship with Ian, a man with difficulties similar to her own, and their efforts to break through their emotional and autistic barriers to admit and live with their feelings for each other.  This book is also an insightful, gutsy, and often humorous commentary on the universal experience of discovering one's true self- learning to make choices based not on the opinions of others or media images, but on one's core values.