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heard about this book for years and appreciated finally getting a chance to read it,

Beautifully written by an artist, Emily Colson shares her love for her son with Asperger's and the creative ways she came up with to communicate with him.


I had several questions as I went alongwas she able to work to support herself and her sonand I thought the story ended abruptly, but I enjoyed it.
A wonderful read! I read it for two reasons, to gain insight and sensitivity to those with Autistic loved ones and because of my admiration for Chuck Colson, the author's father.
He does a beautiful job on the prologue and epilogue, It is easy to see where his daughter, Emily, gets her storytelling skills, I highly recommend this book, A little sad in the beginning but lots of giggles in the second half, Loved the metaphors and similes used, Very appropriate and carried the language image into a visual one, Learned a lot about autism and the effect on a parent's life, Emily kept calling Max's condition a gift, I can see why at the end of the book, Cudo's to the churches who put their arms around Max and Emily to see that both realized the love of God, A lesson for all of us in the pages of this book, I loved this book. It was an interesting and engaging story of a mother's sacrifices and efforts to reach her autistic son, Ms Colson's story reveals the depth of pain and even more, the isolation of a family suddenly thrust into the world of autism, Her path was made all the harder by Max's father, who abandoned the family in a familiar response to this kind of stress,
I was right there through the long, sleepless nights, feeling the despair but also the intense love, I marveled at her tenacity in finding the right help for her son, The book is meaningful for all parents and enlightening for those of us who have not known an autistic child, There is much more here than one mother's story, Colson makes it deeper than that, more universal, encouraging and challenging both, This book is a gem, The author describes facing adversity without a sense of triumphalism or degrading into a tale of woe, The challenges are described realistically, and, unexpectedly, joy comes through the hardships, rather than by overcoming the hardships,

The author's friend, Patti, says early on: "It might not seem true now, . . but God works through these children, They are a gift, Max is a gift, " I reacted skeptically, but by the end of the book, I was convinced that Max was indeed a gift, This was a really great story about Max, a young boy with severe autism and the relationship his mother Emily develops with him after her husband leaves her.
Max is actually the grandson of the late Charles Colson who has written the forward and epilogue,

I enjoyed this book because it was so real and gives an outsider a glimpse into the daily struggles of life with a child like Max.
Emily tirelessly seeks to find ways to communicate with him and improve his quality of life, Her example is one of complete selflessness, she obviously adores him and has sacrificed her life that he might experience some joy here on earth, They are Christians.

This book is actually pretty funnyEmily uses a lot of amusing metaphors and similes to try and help people understand exactly how she felt and how other people responded to Max's behaviour.
There were many people who sought to connect with Max, others who didn't know what to do and still others who really should be ashamed of themselves.
Emily perseveres through the ups and downs, The writing style is creatively unique, it's difficult to explain but I haven't read a book quite like this before,

An ideal gift for someone dealing with a child with disabilities or just for those who enjoy true stories of Christian hope in the midst of trials.
There is no bad language, sexual content or violence,

Good book. The author read the version I listened to and it was a little intense at times because she really knew how she was feeling when she wrote it!

I can't imagine what her days are like.
She sounds, when she reads, like she has boundless energy, She is an amazing woman, As I'm sure all moms with special needs children are!

Beautiful story, This book was recommended to me and Im glad I read it, Its a story about a mother who relentlessly pursue to find ways to help his beloved son Mas who is autistic, While reading this book you can relate to the author and see her daily struggles and challenges with her son, I also learned so many things about autism and gained more understanding about it, A heartwarming story, it will make you cry, laughed and sad, So many lessons to learn from this book, Slow to start. But such a beautiful, worthwhile read, Loved how the Mom, Emily, really comes down to her son, Max's needs, sacrificing much for his thriving, Beautiful how those in his community school, church and people they meet, do the same thing and in so doing draw out God's beauty in giving us Max, and others like him.
"Love is the mark of the Christian, " Max is himself. He himself comprises ALL his world, So hes happy when the world is just himself, He perfectly fits Leibniz illustration of a Monad: an enclosed soul, able to peer outside at the world but confined exclusively to itself,

Except that outside world is a THREAT to little Max, It can drive him into destructive furies, He cant understand the world, For him its overthetop “de trop” existentially too much,

You see, Max is severely autistic,

Thats Max. Or was, before his gorgeously understanding mother Emily had got so, . .

accustomed to his face
His smiles his frowns
His ups
His downs and those are HUGE!

And decided she would take Max out into her phony compared to her ingenuous son's buttondown world NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAID ABOUT IT.


She was Proud of her boy, as was his late granddad, the famed Watergate convict, Charles Colson,

And she and her Dad survived that massive shame how did they ever do it by climbing up Max's horrific Cross,

Max was, and is, someone who dances to a different drummer,

What he is NOT: is a Child of Mammon or Baal,

His emotions are Real, and not Contrived, His headspace is Heaven bound, not Earthbound in Drudgery, Hes Alive in a Dead World, So he goes wild in absolute horror at the Dead World,

And I, too, became autistic at the age of three, in a much milder form: Aspergers Syndrome, I was thenceforth a withdrawn kid, with a quirky jumpiness,

And I developed a deaf ear to things I shouldnt be hearing,

All for the better in an outré world, I think now, though the pain believe me was acute,

Like Max, Ill always be a kid at heart,

You see, Max and I never MEANT badly,

Though, before advanced pharmaceuticals I often acted on my impulses, But positive therapeutics work wonders, . .

The negative type, though, badly damages, As it NEVER, please God, may for Max, . .

For Emilys faithbased, warm LOVE is teaching Max to ACCEPT the worlds harsh reactions to them both,

Something

Max is facing headon far earlier than I did,

You know, we Aspies need to face that music headon, It's aggressive and raucous to our sensitive stayathome ears, but we havta do it,

You see, Aspies as much as Max prefer a quiet, sheltered world, I'm personally very lucky that my dad, and later my doctors, turned me around so I could face the world foursquare for a change, With some damage

Sure it hurt, Sure folks labelled me as an oddball in the office, But the more my meds improved the more I could thrive in the world,

At, I STILL want to hide my head in the sand sometimes, Just like when I was a portly eleven years old and Dad INSISTED on daily calisthenics for us kids, Meaning little fat Fergus primarily, of course, Yikes.

I think the world would be a Far Better Place if we all would do like Emily amp Max

And accept Ourselves,

And this Cruelly Beautiful World

For better or for worse

With an OPEN HEART.


And Max can teach us ALL, .