Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
Written by Jonathan Mooney
Narrated by Jonathan Mooney
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This program is read by the author.
Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed.
Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn—individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that that he wasn’t the problem—the system and the concept of normal were—saved Mooney’s life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution.
A highly sought after public speaker, Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story and his message 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 as much a survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart, insightful, and utterly inspiring—and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons, as they work to find their ways in the world—this audiobook will upend what we call normal and empower us all.
Jonathan Mooney
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. He is the author of The Short Bus and Learning Outside the Lines.
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Reviews for Normal Sucks
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! One of the best literature works and then I have ever read or listen to whatever you want to say. I am too a none diagnosed dyslexic, That has suffered for many years to try to be normal but as an adult I have realize that Norma does really suck. Why is it that people think when you get in a social setting you should act a certain way and do certain things, do we have to adjust to their normal or should they adjust to us?
Thank you Mr. Mooney for continuing to tell your story! It helps for people to understand.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome book! Fellow ADHDer and Brown Grad here. Highly recommend for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or less than, or loves someone neurodivergent.
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