“As I began to understand that every brain is like a fingerprint, it sparked a consciousness of my own differences in ways of seeing and thinking, and how far we have to go to understand and respect this difference in each other.” “When I read Dawn’s memoir, I entered my own mind through her exquisite visual language,” said Pilcher. Pilcher adapted the screenplay for her third feature and will produce with Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning producer Audrey Rosenberg ( Katrina Babies, I Am Not Your Negro). This connection begins a lifelong quest as a deep creative thinker, a discovery at age 36 of being on a spectrum of autism, and an academic path to become a PhD in primatology and now an author of seven books.
Dawn Prince-Hughes?s evocative story will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, forcing us, like the author herself, to rediscover and assess our own understanding of human emotion.'Skeletons In The Closet': Udo Kier, Sally Kirkland, Louis Mandylor Join Terrence Dashon Howard Pic Horror Gets New Directorĭawn gets a job at the zoo and begins a journey of self-discovery as she learns from Congo how to love, how to see herself in the gorillas, and ultimately in other human people. Songs of the Gorilla Nation is more than a story of autism, it is a paean to all that is important in life. By observing them and, later, working with them, she was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to living beings in a way she had never previously experienced. Having suffered from a lifelong inability to relate to people in a meaningful way, Dawn was surprised to find herself irresistibly drawn to these great primates.
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment when, as a young woman, she entered the Seattle Zoo and immediately became fascinated with the gorillas. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.? Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people?s autism.
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