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Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

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Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father offers a radical message of acceptance and empowerment.

Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that he wasn’t the problem—the system and the concept of normal were—saved Mooney's life. Here, he explores the toll that our narrow conception of normal takes on kids and adults both. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity and disability, we can start a revolution.

Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story for nearly two decades. Now he’s ready to share what he’s learned from parents, educators, researchers, and kids in a book that is both a survival guide and a call to action. Whip-smart and inspiring—and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons—this book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.

ISBN-13: 9781250771261

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Publication Date: 12-29-2020

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.65(d)

Jonathan Mooney’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, HBO, NPR, ABC News, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and he continues to speak across the nation about neurological and physical diversity, inspiring those who live with differences and advocating for change. His books include The Short Bus and Learning Outside the Lines.

Table of Contents

I Not Normal 1

II Normal Hasn't Always Been Normal 21

III Abnormal 41

IV Normed 75

V Act Normal 103

VI Normal People Suck 133

VII The New Normal 161

VIII Normal People Are People You Don't Know Very Well 185

Notes 219

Acknowledgments 239