1. David Christopher Miedzianik is an English autistic poet and writer.
17 Facts About David Miedzianik
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David Miedzianik's writings portray the more difficult aspects of autism.
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David Miedzianik is unemployed, but writes about how he wants to work and find love.
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David Christopher Miedzianik was born on 24 July 1956 to a Russian father and English mother.
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David Miedzianik writes about his paternal grandfather having known Grigori Rasputin.
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David Miedzianik's parents separated when Miedzianik was three years old - his father relocated to London and lived there for the next ten years until his death in 1969 due to a diabetic coma.
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David Miedzianik started publishing his poems in several autism newsletters in the UK and US.
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David Miedzianik continued publishing poetry to the Internet until roughly 2004.
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David Miedzianik's works have been extensively analyzed by noted autism researchers, who describe his writing as thoughtful, sophisticated, and displaying an unusually strong awareness of his social difficulties.
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David Miedzianik has been described as roaming from subject to subject, but usually introduces material to the reader with a proper explanation.
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Francesca Happe has described David Miedzianik's writing as the "least autistic" from the authors that he was compared to including Temple Grandin, as he demonstrated the greatest awareness of his limitations and how others perceived him.
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David Miedzianik was noted for portraying autism through an autistic person's perspective.
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David Miedzianik has been described as having a negative self-image and reduced self-esteem, based on his upbringing.
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David Miedzianik claimed that his friend Nigel was more well-adjusted than him, and he went to a special hospital school for a while and was given several medications.
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Oysterband wrote a song, "Little Brother", in response to ads David Miedzianik would leave in magazines asking for songs, based on the severely-autistic teenage son of an acquaintance of the band.
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David Miedzianik attributed the novel's genesis to a study on autistic people conducted in 1978 by the university, for which Miedzianik's mother was interviewed, and a follow-up in which Miedzianik himself was interviewed.
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David Miedzianik has described Miedzianik's writings about his solitude as repetitive and disjointed, and notes his awareness of solitude.