Promotional Information

This is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggle of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.Dawn

About the Author

Dawn Prince-Hughes, who has Asperger's Syndrome, is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. Known best for her work with apes, she has received critical acclaim for her book, Gorillas among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days.

Reviews

"These essays... exhibit a level of awareness, effective writing, and sophisticated understanding of the world they must cope with that are usually thought beyond the capabilities of even the highest functioning people with autism." - Clara Claiborne Park, author of Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism