Fearlessly Different

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781538163122 Author(s): Mickey Rowe Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2022 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Pages: 200

Description: '... powerfully renders what itA?s like to live life to the fullest.' Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewMy name is Mickey Rowe. I am an actor, a theatre director, a father, and a husband. I am also a man with autism. You think those things donA?t go together? Let me show you that they do.Growing up, Mickey Rowe was told that he couldnA?t enter the mainstream world. He was iced out by classmates and colleagues, infantilized by well-meaning theatre directors, barred from even earning a minimum wage. Why? Because he is autistic.Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage is Mickey RoweA?s story of growing up autistic and pushing beyond the restrictions of a special education classroom to shine on the stage. As an autistic and legally blind person, living in a society designed by and for non-disabled people, it was always made clear to Mickey the many things he was apparently incapable of doing. But Mickey did them all anywayA?and he succeeded because of, not in spite of, his autism. He became the first autistic actor to play the lead role in the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, landed the title role in the play Amadeus, co-created the theatre/philanthropy company Arts on the Waterfront, and founded the National Disability Theatre. Mickey faced untold obstacles along the way, but his story ends in triumph.Many people feel they are locked out of the world of autismA?that itA?s impossible to even begin to understand. In Fearlessly Different, Mickey guides readers to that world while also helping those with autism to feel seen and understood. And he shows all peopleA?autistic and non-autistic alikeA?that the things that make us different are often our biggest strengths.

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