Luke Jackson (author)
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Luke Christopher Jackson (born 18 August 1988) is a British author who rose to fame at the age of 13, when he wrote a book from first-hand experience about his life with Asperger syndrome
. The book, titled Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence, created a sensation and greatly increased general awareness of the condition.
Luke Jackson has three sisters and three brothers. One of his brothers, Joe, has AD/HD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
), and another brother, Ben, has autism
. Luke Jackson, his mother Jacqui Jackson
and the rest of their family were featured in a documentary on BBC2 (UK television) discussed on the BBC website.
In his book Crystalline Lifetime: Fragments of Asperger Syndrome, Luke Jackson divulges that he left school at the age of 14 “after completely having had enough”, although he has “tried college” since. As of 2006, he is singing and playing in a band.
Jackson also recorded a column for BBC Radio 4's programme Home Truths.
Asperger syndrome
Asperger's syndrome that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development...
. The book, titled Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence, created a sensation and greatly increased general awareness of the condition.
Luke Jackson has three sisters and three brothers. One of his brothers, Joe, has AD/HD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a developmental disorder. It is primarily characterized by "the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone" and symptoms starting before seven years of age.ADHD is the most commonly studied and...
), and another brother, Ben, has autism
Autism
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
. Luke Jackson, his mother Jacqui Jackson
Jacqui Jackson
Jacqueline Carol 'Jacqui' Jackson is a writer on autism issues with a background as the single parent of seven children, three girls and four boys, of whom 2 boys and one girl are on the autism spectrum. Jackson and her family appeared in a BBC documentary, My Family and Autism, screened in 2003...
and the rest of their family were featured in a documentary on BBC2 (UK television) discussed on the BBC website.
In his book Crystalline Lifetime: Fragments of Asperger Syndrome, Luke Jackson divulges that he left school at the age of 14 “after completely having had enough”, although he has “tried college” since. As of 2006, he is singing and playing in a band.
Jackson also recorded a column for BBC Radio 4's programme Home Truths.
Books
- A User Guide to the GF/CF Diet for Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD (2001) ISBN 9781843100553
- Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to AdolescenceFreaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to AdolescenceFreaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence is a non-fiction book about how it is like having a form of high functioning autism called Asperger Syndrome. The book was written by the then 13 year old Luke Jackson who has Asperger Syndrome himself...
(2002) Foreword by Tony AttwoodTony AttwoodTony Attwood is an English psychologist who lives in Queensland, Australia and is an author of several books on Asperger's Syndrome....
# ISBN 1843100983 # ISBN 978-1843100980 - Crystalline Lifetime: Fragments of Asperger Syndrome (2006) ISBN 9781843104438
- Asperger Syndrome in the Adolescent Years (2003) Edited by Liane Holliday Willey, Foreword by Luke Jackson, ISBN 9781843107422 (aka Asperger Syndrome in Adolescence: Living with the Ups, the Downs and Things in Between)
- Multicoloured Mayhem: Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescence, Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD (2003) by Jacqui Jackson, ISBN 1-84310-171-8