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A reread (re-listen) for me. I felt I needed it.
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Watched an interview with the author this morning so I‘ve added this to my reading list. I did read the negative and positive reviews. I agree with one of the negative views that the author went to great lengths to discuss the misuse of language and its negative impact only to repeatedly use the word “tribe” in place of community. I noticed it in the interview which is why I read the reviews first. Looks good otherwise. #toread #autism #asd

This should not be political.
This should not be radical.
Yet here we are.
(Yeah, my peacock sheets are coming off way too blue in this picture.)
#Autism #ASD #AutismAwarenessMonth #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #MentalHealth #RedInstead

12 years ago today I became a Mummy. My beautiful boy has complex special needs and my world has become a whole lot smaller over the last decade. It‘s one of the reasons books are so important to me, they aren‘t just my escape from everyday life, they are my chance to go other places and have other adventures. Books keep me sane!

I attended a training recently on working with neurodivergent colleagues and decided to listen to this book for a little more insight. It talks about different types of neurodiversities and highlights women in these categories, which I really appreciated as it‘s always been a male dominated study. This book was enlightening and I had some takeaways and see many traits in my immediate family which is not surprising at all.

This is an excellent exploration of neurodiveristy, terminology definition (which was so helpful!), and applying queer theory. It took a long time to get around to what the author meant by neuroqueer theory, but she explains it extremely well, and everything leading up to it aptly broadened my understanding before we got there. There's a lot from this book that I take away to use in my life both in understand and making space for neurodiveristy.

This was written to be a textbook and sometimes it really feels like it. But it also has some valuable viewpoints to share and spells out a lot of terminology around neurodiversity that people have been using very loosely. (Me included.) Definitely worth reading if you're interested in the topic. A soft pick for me because I don't really appreciate academic writing.

Just made the dangerous discovery how easy it is to order books from Blackwell's. 😬 More loopholes might have slowed me down. 😂
Tagged book not available in North America yet. My eldest was recently diagnosed with Autism and so doing some catch-up, and most of the good resources seem to be in the UK.

What he said 👆.
With chapters on social situations, access to general healthcare, education, work, public transport, PW explores autistic experience and makes suggestions which with a little thoughtfulness and care have the potential to massively decrease the daily nervous system overload. Things that NT people stand to benefit from, too (flickering fluorescent lighting, anyone?)
Aimed at the NT majority, I read it for self-affirmation reasons.

I saw that this ebook is free on Amazon so I bought it. I‘m on the Autism Spectrum so I‘m interested to see what this has to say and how much of it will be relatable to me. This was written by a woman who is also on the Spectrum. She has a Facebook page I‘ve been following for awhile called Neurobeautiful and I feel like I can relate to what she posts on there so maybe the book will be the same way.