Neuro Typical is a free-flowing autobiographical account - an
ongoing story of what it is like for an already obtuse family to
live around mental illness, relentlessly. Prompted by a 24-year-old
son's comment, "Mum, you have no idea how privileged you are not to
have mental illness", the author decided to write, in real time, a
journey as a family today, the voyage an ongoing plethora of
peculiarity, since two of "Ned's" other brothers in the household
are autistic to boot. Neuro Typical is an intentional unstructured
diary, and includes memories of the past, which counterbalance the
"live" accounts which dart in and out as the brothers interrupt
their mother as she writes. The life experiences and perspectives
of the participants reveal a complicated and unusual family set-up,
the coping mechanisms, and the stances adopted, some organic,
others knee-jerk reactions, that have helped to create a sense of
normalcy to the four brothers at least, to combat the outside
world. As a family, they inhabit a place where expectations have
had to shift constantly, where conforming became anathema. Ned, who
has been ill with severe mental illness for over 10 years since a
pre-teen, is the most vocal of the boys, as he vehemently darts in
and out of the narrative in inverted commas, partly, in reality,
from the nature of his obsessive illness. His voice tells the
inside story; what it is like to live within his own head, his
experiences of hospitalisation and "sections", the medication, and
then just being a boy with such a label and all that entails. Just
being a boy. Neuro Typical is written against the backdrop of the
internet age, social media and all it offers, with both positive
and negative outcomes, where even buying online has its
consequences, and within a confusing enough world where parents and
offspring are attempting to meet in an ever-developing
technological era.
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