To Siri with Love: A Mother, her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines Audiobook (Free)

From the writer of the viral New York Times op-ed column ‘To Siri with Love’ comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life having a thirteen-year-old guy with autism that hold insights and revelations for all of us all.

When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple’s electronic personal associate, Siri, helped Gus, her son who has autism, she received widespread media interest and an outpouring of affection from visitors all over the world. Basking in the afterglow of about To Siri with Like: A Mom, her Autistic Kid, and the Kindness of Devices media attention, Gus told anyone who would pay attention, ‘I’m a movie star.’

Judith’s story of her boy and his connection with Siri was an unusual tribute to technology. Even though many worry that our digital devices are dumbing us down, she exposed how they can give voice to others, including kids with autism like Gus-a son who has problems searching people in the attention, hops when he’s content, and connects with inanimate objects with an empathetic level.

To Siri with Love is a assortment of funny, poignant, and uplifting tales about coping with an extraordinary child who has helped a mother or father see and go through the world differently. From the charming (Gus weeping with sympathy over the buses that would lie unused while the bus motorists were on strike) to the painful (spending $22,000 for the behaviorist in Manhattan to instruct Gus to employ a urinal) to the funny (Gus’s insistence on obtaining nude during all foods, whether at home or not, because he will not need to get his clothing dirty) to the profound (how an automated ‘associate’ helped a youngster learn how to communicate with the rest of the globe), the tales directly into Siri with Love open our eye towards the magic and challenges of a existence beyond the normal.