Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's

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Synopsis

In 1996, everything about Joe Biel's life seemed like a mistake. He was 18, he lived in Cleveland, he got drunk every day, and he had mystery health problems and weird social tics.

All his friends' lives were as bad or worse. To escape a nihilistic, apocalyptic worldview and to bring reading and documentation into a communal punk scene, he started assembling zines and bringing them in milk crates to underground punk shows. Eventually this became Microcosm Publishing. But Biel's head for math was stronger than his ability to relate to people, and it wasn't until he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome that it all began to fall into place.

This is the story of how, over 20 years, one person turned a litany of continuing mistakes and seeming wrong turns into a happy, fulfilled life and a thriving publishing business that defies all odds.

Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781621062158
Related ISBNs:
9781621060093
Publisher:
Microcosm Publishing
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Sander Hicks, Joyce Brabner, Joe Biel
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance, Psychology, Language Arts, Communication, Music
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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