Obsessions
Why an intense interest can feel less like a hobby and more like the engine running a child’s inner world.
A new perspective for parents
What if the behavior that frustrates you most is where understanding needs to begin?
Parents can see what their child is doing and still miss what is happening inside the child. Happily Ever Asperger offers a view from the inside—one built from lived experience rather than a clinical checklist.
This is not a program for fixing your child.
It is an invitation to understand the mind already in front of you.
Explore the Ideas Inside
Eric uses stories from childhood, school, work, relationships, and late diagnosis to explore patterns parents may recognize in their own children.
The Journey
Why exhaustive learning may be deeply rewarding even when the assignment, project, or collection is never finished.
Justice
Why black-and-white thinking can create a powerful need to correct what feels wrong—and why that is not simply a bad temper.
Communication
What happens when an Aspie child and the neurotypical world are handed two different manuals for human interaction.
A different interpretation
“Your child may not need to be fixed as much as they need to be understood correctly.”
This book does not deny the difficulties or excuse harmful behavior. It asks parents to look beneath the behavior before deciding what it means.
About the author
Eric Hicks
Eric Hicks is a software developer, entrepreneur, musician, and lifelong problem solver. He was thirty-three when he discovered that Asperger’s explained much of his life. The realization gave him a framework for experiences that had previously been dismissed as quirks, stubbornness, unfinished potential, or simply being different.
Eric writes from lived experience—not as a clinician or a spokesperson for every person on the spectrum. When he isn’t writing or building technology, Eric feels most alive playing bass guitar with his band, Frequency 7.
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