Foreign Rights

Leo M. Kohl
ASPERGER my life between intelligence and emotions
… but I’ve learned how to handle it!

A young Asperger autist tells about the ups and downs he has experienced in the last eighteen years. With humour, he describes his chaotic family, his career at school, and at the same time the development of his own personality. Not only the family members have their say, but also friends and former classmates. In many emotionally charged moments, he tries to portray his own world in this book. He wants to mediate between “normal” and dissenting people, encourage those affected, parents and educators and show them that these children are not so complicated when you learn to deal with them. Quite often everyone can learn from each other. The book offers many interesting insights into the mental chaos and psychological problems of an Aspis, also founded bases to the characteristic.

Stephanie Meer-Walter
An outrageous answer! … to the supposed success story
with my whole being autistic

How does it work: “Life” if the instruction manual is missing?
What is autism? The author asks herself this question when she receives the diagnosis Asperger Autistin at the age of 47. In her photographs and texts she penetrates into the depths of her soul. They are thought fragments of an autistic “non-autist”. They were created at a time when she had no idea of her autism. Her photographs and texts provide a touching access to the inner life of an Asperger autistic woman.
Stephanie Meer-Walter lets readers participate in her search for her ego. She gives an unprecedented answer because she has lacked the courage to do so and because her example could serve as a success story. As an Asperger autistic, teacher and even in a leadership position! But inside it looks quite different: It is a daily struggle for normality, acceptance and participation.
Meer-Walter encourages us not to hide and to accept “otherness”. She invites us to share the surprising, unusual, desperate, but also hopeful moments with her. They are impulses not only for Asperger autistic women, but for all those who are in search of themselves.

Leo M. Kohl
Why don’t the other kids like me?
Parents’ Guide for Children in the Autism Spectrum

After an odyssey through the psychological jungle, Leo M. Kohl is diagnosed with Asperger autism at the age of 9. It quickly becomes clear that his mother is also in the spectrum.
The 20-year-old psychology student and his mother have always had a special bond to each other. They could understand and sympathize with each other. In this book they give Tipps and mental impetuses, how one can deal with children in the autism spectrum. With the description of numerous examples from the last twenty years they point out new ways, in order to bring non-autistic parents the world of their children more near. How they have solved the many challenges is encouraging. They show that much can be achieved by accepting the situation and a certain amount of serenity without glossing over the difficulties.
This time not only Leo describes his emotional world, but also his mother has her say. It is precisely this combination of different perspectives on different situations that makes the book so special and valuable. By the way, not only for parents of autistic children!

Leo M. Kohl / Franca Peinel / Stephanie Meer-Walter
Teacher’s guide for children in the autism spectrum
Why do my teachers not understand me?

Experts in their own field: Asperger-Autists who know what they are talking about!
“Why can’t my teachers understand me?”
“Because they don’t know what’s going on in your head, how you feel. They don’t know that your mental escape to another place is your salvation to deal with the chaos that the environment is causing you right now.”

However, as a teacher, you may be asking yourself. The student’s not talking to me. I know. Your student’s “operating system” has crashed. She can no longer speak. It’s like your computer, when it’s overloaded, it stops responding to your input.

This is where the Teacher’s Guide comes in. The Teacher’s Guide:

• “explains” autistic students from the perspective of a young Asperger’s autistic student
• contains many useful tips on what autistic students need
• clears up many misunderstandings by looking at the autistic pupils from a different angle
• shows the worries and fears of parents of autistic children
• but also takes into account the needs of the teachers
• offers a teaching model of barrier-free teaching and learning
• contains numerous working materials for both students and teachers

The young Asperger’s autist Leo Kohl, who not so long ago took his school leaving examination and is now studying psychology, describes very vividly from the student’s point of view how he experienced school. He describes his inner life, what he felt and thought while keeping silent – and how you can help autistic students.
His mother Franca Peinel, herself an Asperger’s autist, describes from the mother’s point of view how she perceived her son’s school days. Her descriptions reveal the many stumbling blocks in the encounter between parents of autistic children and their teachers – and show how they can be overcome together.
The descriptions are supplemented by the Asperger’s autist Stephanie Meer-Walter, who worked for twenty years as a teacher in the teaching profession and in teacher training. Her answer is a lesson plan for barrier-free teaching and learning based on offering the pupils a relationship – and you as a teacher.

Stephanie Meer-Walter
Overcoming the inner suicide
My life despite, against, With Asperger’s autism

Through intensive examination of her biography and her autistic being, Stephanie Meer-Walter finally succeeds in recognising the difficult conditions of her start in life and her – long unrecognised – autistic being in a neurotypical world, and even more importantly: acknowledge them! This is the first time she is able to look at her life and existence not from the perspective of failure, but to appreciate her efforts and struggle to find her place in this world.
The author writes honestly and very personally about her autistic being, her depression, her suicidal tendencies, her break with her family, her early retirement as a teacher, her contact intolerance, her time in the psychiatric day clinic, her psychotherapy… In short: about how she manages to allow herself to be. It is her story, her experience. It is her sensations and feelings. They are complemented by the therapeutic view of her therapist Ulla Graumann, which, together with the accompanying drawings by the author, allows an unusually open and deep insight into the therapy.
Life despite, against, with Asperger’s autism: this is exactly the development reflected in the book by Stephanie Meer-Walter.