Autistic children can often grow up to become functional adults if they are treated very early in their lives. If the disorder goes unnoticed or untreated for many years, the diagnosis is almost certainly going to become harder to escape. Treatment, encouragement, and understanding are the keys to dealing with autism in everyday life, and this book lends some forms of treatment, lots of understanding, and bunches of encouragement along the path of seeing an Autistic child grow to adulthood.

Bravo for Ms. Iversen in the writing of her book, and in all the time she has spent with her child trying to understand and encourage a mind that has trouble opening. Strange Son provides insight into the problems associated with autism and the increasing number of those afflicted with it, which numbers more every day. We have to start to understand this in order to deal with those with autism, so that more autistic children can grow up to become functioning adults in the work-place -where most of them want to be- and to be treated as normal, which is what most of them want also. This is a book that all friends and families of autistics should read, and get your copy now, because you may soon be dealing with an autistic on a personal level.