It is chronologically arranged according to my life- from childhood to adulthood through adolescence, love, motherhood, Asperger's and more...
It touches all of the good times and bad in my life and reveals all of my feelings, thoughts and point of view about the world as a woman who has Asperger's Syndrome and as a mother to kids who are on the Autistic Spectrum.
Peek into the hidden world of an Autistic person!
"The Alien in Me" is my first book publication and it is my way of opening the door to my inner world of Autism; my way of sharing with the world- feelings, thoughts and my perspective about this world, and hopefully giving a voice to those children and people with Asperger's Syndrome, who have been seeing things and feeling just like me, but haven't been able to express themselves so far.
A quote from the book:
" I was a child with no childhood,
Like a seeing-woman with no eyes;
Running in the darkness called ‘life’,
Looking for joy and happiness,
Love and affection..."
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep