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When you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, life can seem strange and foreign - you try to fit in, but with every new day comes a new challenge. Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, author Erika Hammerschmidt can relate. Born on the Wrong Planet is the story of her childhood and young adulthood coping with the challenges of Asperger Syndrome. The book started as a collection of stories, poems, and essays that Erika penned during high school. After high school as she studied abroad in Germany, Erika compiled them and created the first version of Born on the Wrong Planet . In the current revised and expanded edition of Born on the Wrong Planet , Erika takes us into the confusing and often tumultuous years of dating, and finally marriage to John, a young man who is also on the spectrum whom she met in college. Throughout, Erika's unique language skills and her fresh perspective on the world combine into a both delightful and enlightening read. In Erika's own words she shares that, 'even if you feel like an alien, that doesn't negate your potential as a successful human being or your ability to realize your potential'.

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Erika's writing is as clear and beautiful as the orange roses she receives when John proposes. With astonishing honesty she recounts her struggles with Asperger's when no one understands her differentness. Believing that she must have been born on the wrong planet, she explains her feelings: 'When I think of myself as an alien, it is a way of putting a name to the struggles of those years.' Eminently readable, Erika's candor will tug at your heart. Her transparent writing captures the bewildering experiences of autism as she comes full circle to self-acceptance -- Ruth Elaine Hane adult diagnosed with high-functioning autism, member of the Autism Society of America Board of Directors, contributor to Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum

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