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Just had to pause the audiobook, because Fern threw me back into my own childhood. What she tells us about her childhood friend was basically the same thing I experienced. I already related to a lot of things she wrote about in the last hour, but this scene just really, really got me ❤️‍🩹

AnnCrystal 💔🫂❤️‍🩹😘💝. 2d

Jari-chan @AnnCrystal 💖💖💖 2d

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The Electricity of Every Living Thing: One Woman�s Walk with Asperger�s | Katherine May

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This was an enthralling listen of Katherine‘s realisation that she was autistic and of receiving a formal diagnosis later on in life. She writes so precisely about her own experience of being autistic, motherhood, walking the South West Coast path, relationships with friends, her husband etc. It really drew me in. #10beforetheend

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ChaoticMissAdventures ✔️✔️ yay for finding gems in #10BeforeTheEbd! 6d

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CoffeeNBooks

The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr: A Novel | Frances Maynard

Saturday morning #coffeeandabook

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CBee

All the Little Bird-Hearts | Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

Jen, you keep spoiling me! Thank you for sending this my way - I started it a while back (library book) but I think it was a “me, not the book” situation 😂🤪 Look forward to trying again 💚💚 @Jas16

Jas16 Feel free to pass it on to someone else if it you don‘t want to give it another try. ❤️ 1mo

BarbaraBB I loved this one! I hope you will too this time! 1mo

CBee @Jas16 I am definitely going to try again! 💚 1mo

CBee @BarbaraBB 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 1mo

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently | Steve Silberman

Here‘s a video on why it looks like Autism “maybe” increasing. https://youtu.be/S0l9El7bg44?si=LnK2979IwJBjzeRJ

ncsufoxes The other things that the video does not mention is: girls were largely dismissed from early autism diagnosis, also many non White children, particularly Black children were diagnosed with things like intellectual or behavioral disorders, not Autism. There is also a lack in consistency in evaluation methods/standards. The ADOS has become the tool to use, but it is not used correctly all the time. And the ADOS has only been really used in the last 1mo

ncsufoxes few years. Plus many different communities have not always had access or availability to psychologists for evaluations. Or taking in cultural norms for evaluation purposes, since most evaluations tools are normed on white males (there has been a push to change & update evaluations measures but it‘s an extensive & expensive process). (edited) 1mo

lil1inblue @ncsufoxes 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 1mo

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kspenmoll Yes! 🎯 1mo

TheBookHippie @ncsufoxes 💯💯💯💯 1mo

ncsufoxes Additionally Autism was initially diagnosed as a childhood seizure disorder. I‘m pretty sure this was mentioned in Neurotribes & I think (it‘s been many years since I‘ve read it many years ago) the tagged book also discusses the history of Autism. As an anthropologist he does a really nice overview of Autism & changing diagnostic criteria in the DSM. It was written in 2007, so none of the updated info is in there. I probably need to reread it

Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism

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Language Arts | Stephanie Kallos

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“Sometimes the most powerful words are the ones you‘re still searching for.”

English teacher Marlow struggles to connect with his autistic son, his ex-wife and his college-bound daughter - powerful and poignant with love and loss and an amazing twist at its conclusion.

#College 📚

#Falling🍁

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TheBookgeekFrau What a beautiful cover! 😍 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 2mo

Eggs @TheBookgeekFrau That‘s what attracted me but it ended up being so good! 2mo

Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you 🙏🏻 2mo

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently | Steve Silberman

Bump. Autism isn‘t caused by pregnant women taking acetaminophen/tylenol. Way to blame the mother/woman. There‘s a large genetic component. Please question everything this man and administration say.

CBee As the mother of an autistic child, I thank you for posting this 💚 2mo

Lands It was hard to watch his speech. He did say somewhere in there that it‘s his opinion. 2mo

TieDyeDude Drumpf and R-FKer continuing the legacy of ignoring women's pain and blaming them for anything they can't handle. Pathetic and dumb. 2mo

kspenmoll Totally get it. The genetics are so clear in my family & my husband‘s. 2mo

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TieDyeDude

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel | Mark Haddon

FDT. FRFK. The dumbest presidential address yet?

TieDyeDude BTW, any advise on buying stock in Tylenol while the price is dropping? 😜 2mo

AmyG Honestly. The utter stupidity. Trump is probably blaming Tylenol because he can‘t say a acetaminophen. (edited) 2mo

willaful Would love to see a lawsuit from them.

I discovered after his death that my father was trying to prove this theory, which was enough for me to know it's complete crap. 2mo

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Leftcoastzen Absolutely sickened by this . 2mo

Susanita @willaful 🎯 2mo

Aims42 @AmyG LOL! Definitely 🤣 2mo

Aims42 I‘d rather trust the doctors and scientists rather than a man who eats at McDonald‘s every day and a man who eats roadkill 🙄 2mo

willaful @Aims42 word! How on earth are we supposed to take them seriously? 2mo

Aims42 @willaful 🤦‍♀️😵‍💫🫣 Right?!? 2mo

Deblovestoread @Aims42 🙌🏼 @AmyG Exactly! Release the files! 2mo

RamsFan1963 Don't you love how Captain Bonespurs has the gall to tell women to just deal with the pain, and not take a pain reliever that has been proven reliable, safe and effective. I'd like to see DT stand the pain of pregnancy, much less child birth. FDT FRFKJ!! They have no reliable science to back up their accusations, but stop calling autism a f'en disease!!! 2mo

TheBookgeekFrau My eyes rolled so hard I got a headache 😂 2mo

Sparklemn @AmyG OMG… I needed a laugh. 😂 2mo

JenReadsAlot Just BS 2mo

Bookpearl This!! 2mo

lil1inblue @TieDyeDude 😂 Also, my MIL can't take tylenol. But at least 3 of her children are autistic... 🤔 2mo

Zuhkeeyah @TheBookgeekFrau 🤣🤣 2mo

Zuhkeeyah @AmyG Truth! 😆 2mo

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