A Real Person: Life on the Outside

By G. Gerland, J. Tate. 2003

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The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2006, background): “Autobiographical accounts of autism often describe fragmented perception (Gerland, 1997).”
Autistic culture online: virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum (2008, background): “That other people didn’t do that was very confusing’ (Gerland 2003: 35; see also Williams 2005).”
‘Coming out’ on the spectrum: autism, identity and disclosure (2010, background): “…appear in other accounts, as when Gunilla Gerland describes enlisting the help of an unwitting other when she wants to visit a gallery or a town she could never tackle on her own: ‘I’ve been able to pretend that I want their company while in fact what I’ve needed is an escort’ (Gerland 2003: 247).”
Describing the Sensory Abnormalities of Children and Adults with Autism (2007, background): “First-person autobiographical accounts often report that people with autism have unusual sensory experiences including insensitivity to pain and atypical responses to auditory, visual, tactile and olfactory stimuli (Bemporad, 1979; Cesaroni & Garber, 1991; Grandin & Scariano, 1986; Gerland, 2003; Wi”
Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain. (2003, background): “In autism, such perceptual overload is often suspected, for instance, to explain the phenomenon of heightened sensitivity experienced by many individuals (e.g. Gerland 1997).”