Normal Sucks, Jonathan Mooney
Normal Sucks, Jonathan Mooney
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Normal Sucks
How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

Author: Jonathan Mooney

Narrator: Jonathan Mooney

Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia on July 17, 2019

The subtitle of this book is a bit misleading, as it's not really about how to live, learn and thrive outside of what society deems normal. Instead, this is mostly a memoir by a man who grew up with several so-called learning disabilities (ADHD, dyslexia, etc.) and who grew up in a decidedly "outsid......more

Goodreads review by Ell on March 06, 2019

This is an interesting and thought-provoking book that at times is flat-out disturbing. The author posits that we are “surrounded by institutions, systems and cultural practices that demand and enforce, ‘normalcy’.” In other words, we are in an age of constant judgment, seeking to align us with or o......more

Goodreads review by aqilahreads on December 20, 2020

jonathan mooney is diagnosed with dyslexia & ADHD who didnt learn to read until he was twelve. in this book, he explores the toll that being normal takes on kids and adults when they are trapped in environment that label them, shame them and tell them even in the subtle ways, that they are the probl......more

Goodreads review by Cassandra on October 11, 2020

Chapter 2 alone is worth picking up this book......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 03, 2021

Hlavná idea: “Ne, nepotřebuju přizpůsobení kvůli mojí dyslexii. Vypořádám se s tím sám.“ Usmála se. „Máš pravdu,“ řekla. „Ty nepotřebuješ uzpůsobené podmínky kvůli dyslexii, ty potřebuješ uzpůsobené podmínky kvůli jejich dys-učení.” Hlavné body: 1. Väčšina ľudí chce aby sme boli normálny ako oni ale to......more