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Chelsea.Poole
The Good Egg | Jory John
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The Cool Bean
The Smart Cookie
The Good Egg

The Bad Seed and The Big Cheese wouldn‘t fit.

WorldsOkayestStepMom I love The Good Egg!! 4mo
BennettBookworm Love!! 4mo
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caitylaycock

“It simply means treat otters the same way you'd like otters to treat you.“

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caitylaycock

I love this book because as a kid my dad used to read it to us all the time. He thought us that the golden rule was the most important rule.

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caitylaycock
Pickpick

This book is a fun book about the golden rule. The author uses a play on words and make the book about otters to replace the word others. I like how the book explains that if you want to be treated a certain way then you got to treat others the same.

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BeeMagical
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Pickpick

Book 161📚 4.5⭐️

A great book for women and girls with AS/ASD🩷

Really appreciated the real-life accounts.

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GingerAntics
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Panpan

PROS
1. She conducted interviews with people who have autism to give a broader perspective. As long as your perspective/exercise is found somewhere in there even partially you‘re good to go.
2. A not too bad discussion on situational mutism.
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GingerAntics CONS
1. Is upset that Asperger‘s Syndrome has been folded into ASD, because it doesn‘t fit her narrative, even though part of that narrative is acknowledging that people forget Asperger‘s is autism. Sorry not sorry your cutesy name based on eugenics and racism went in the bin.
2. The author is a kook who has since claimed to have cured her “Asperger‘s” (ASD) through diet.
8mo
GingerAntics 3. This is an eating disorder nightmare. Especially seeing that ASD women are far more likely to have an eating disorder than the general population, her advice to put young children on highly restrictive diets that science has proven do nothing for ASD, is dangerous at best and deadly at worst. (edited) 8mo
GingerAntics Is the answer to ASD really to keep your child away from birthday cake if they like it? Then again, she‘s all about the pseudoscience of sugar is as addictive as crack, so clearly not the best source.
4. Big fan of the power of manifestation, so if reality is your jam, this is not for you. She also believes ASD girls/woman are psychic.
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GingerAntics 5. Starts with a long discussion on precocious intelligence often found in girls with autism (her aspergirls) going on for quite some time about their higher reasoning skills and complex ways of thinking, but then concludes her book by saying that ASD girls cannot understand complex reasoning. Um, which is it? Talk about insulting. She destroyed her own thesis in a single sentence. (edited) 8mo
GingerAntics 6. If you‘re not into the Christian narrative on people who are different, this is a hard pass. Including gender normative cliches. Pass.
7. Assumes all ASD girls/women have the same learning styles.
8. If you or someone you love has just been diagnosed with ASD, do NOT start here. In fact, never ever go here. There are much better options.
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GingerAntics 9. What are her credentials. She talks about having gone to college, but what did she study? Did she study psychology? Neurology? Art history? Manifestation, the universe, and you? Nothing? No one knows and she‘s not saying (which is telling enough). 8mo
marleed Hard pass! 8mo
GingerAntics @marleed good choice! 8mo
marleed @GingerAntics Thanks for saving my blood from boiling! 8mo
GingerAntics @marleed you are more than welcome! My blood was boiling enough for the both of us! 8mo
Texreader Yikes!!! I‘m impressed you powered through it but I think you‘ve done a public service especially if you post this review everywhere you can. 8mo
julesG Thanks! Will definitely steer clear. 8mo
ravenlee Um, if females with ASD are psychic and so amazing, in her mind, why would she want to “cure” it? 8mo
GingerAntics @Texreader lol I will admit to skimming the final few chapters. I posted it on Apple Books and here, but I honestly feel like I need to post it other places, too. 8mo
GingerAntics @ravenlee EXACTLY?! This from the same mind that admits ASD is neurological, not psychological, but then turns around and says it‘s caused by leaky gut. 🙄 When are people going to figure out that if your digestive tract is leaking into the rest of your body, that‘s an emergent situation, not a “take probiotics and avoid gluten” situation? 8mo
GingerAntics @julesG good idea! 8mo
ravenlee 🤦🏻‍♀️ 8mo
Texreader @ravenlee 👍🏻😁 8mo
GingerAntics @Texreader I just added my review to Amazon, but considering their algorithm, I‘m not sure what good it will do. 8mo
Texreader @GingerAntics I read Amazon reviews so yours may save someone 8mo
GingerAntics @Texreader I do, too, but that one has SO many 5 star reviews it‘s terrifying. 8mo
GingerAntics @Texreader well, Amazon is censoring my review, claiming it has at least one of the following: “Profanity
Harassment
Hate speech
Sexual content
Illegal activity
Private information” 🙄
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Texreader @GingerAntics OMG!! What‘s the use of reviews!! I got flagged once. Not sure why but I think the author probably flagged it because it was so negative. 7mo
GingerAntics @Texreader yup! I wonder if authors are basically rigging their amazon reviews. 7mo
Texreader @GingerAntics Yea I think that‘s possible. I think it‘s so easy to “flag” a review and you know Amazon doesn‘t have enough people to see if the flag is legit. I tried responding to it and it was a black hole. 7mo
GingerAntics @Texreader why does this not surprise me about amazon? 7mo
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GingerAntics
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I finished this, but right now my review is so long and all over the place, I‘m taking some time to collect my thoughts.

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GingerAntics
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Really struggling with this one. She‘s clearly a kook (autistic women are naturally psychic 🤨) and now she no longer identifies as ASD/AS because she cured herself with food. 😒 The stories of other women with ASD are nice. It‘s nice knowing other women have has similar experiences, even if the similarities are sometimes rather abstract. I just don‘t know. I wish she would get on with it so I could be done with the book.

GingerAntics 86 minutes left, and I‘m pretty sure those numbers are at 2x speed. 8mo
quietlycuriouskate Oh dear! May we be acknowledged to have access to our whole brain, please and thank you? I'm fed up of the assumption that "we" are all emotionless robots, and now I'm to understand that we're all psychic?! I am analytical AND intuitive: get over it, world, do! 8mo
GingerAntics @quietlycuriouskate right? She‘s actually open to the idea that we do have emotions but don‘t always know how to show them, so it comes out as apathy or meltdowns. So she‘s open to that. She was self diagnosed (something I don‘t have a problem with really), but now claims she cured herself through diet and claims that the right vitamins and supplements will help make things easier for ASD people. 🙄 8mo
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kspenmoll @quietlycuriouskate I totally get it-my Aspergers's son has taught me so much (now. 28 yr old adult) as have the students, both male and female I have taught over the years. Emotionless, NO. Something to cure? No something to embrace and celebrate in a world that does not always understand or embrace you. Psychic?!
But every autistic person I know is an individual in and of themselves just like all people.
End of sermon.
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GingerAntics @quietlycuriouskate she does claim women with low support need autism usually have some way they are intellectually gifted which I like. She chose to interview only women who had formal diagnoses to lend the book credibility, but her credentials are firmly in the quack department. 8mo
GingerAntics @kspenmoll totally agree 8mo
kspenmoll @GingerAntics There has to be better books out there. Close friend of mine has a daughter, now 18 on the spectrum, the may know but then again, you probable know other better books to. 8mo
GingerAntics @kspenmoll I have some others. I‘m hoping those go better. I definitely will not be buying any of the other books she‘s written that I had my eye on. 8mo
GingerAntics @kspenmoll she spends an odd amount of time plugging her other books in this one. It‘s weird. 8mo
quietlycuriouskate Just speculating here, but I wonder if the psychic stuff she talks about has its roots in hyper-vigilance. As for diet, I know that eating well helps with my resilience in the face of ongoing stressors but I'm not looking to it as a "cure" for something that's not even a disease! 8mo
GingerAntics @quietlycuriouskate I agree on the food thing. It‘s harder to handle life for anyone when you‘re hungry, tired, or sick. That doesn‘t mean food is a cure for anything. As far as the psychic stuff, that didn‘t seem to be her jam at all. She went on and on about how autistic woman can manifest great things in their lives and bla bla bla. She sounds like nothing but a charlatan to me. 8mo
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theokiereader
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After spending 15 years in public relations, I decided to go back to school and get my teaching certification. Now, 2.5 years into my graduate program, I only have my student teaching semester left! I‘m ready to pick up a Litsy challenge for the first time since I began this journey, and I‘m going to start with #BookSpinBingo. @TheAromaofBooks Will you add me to your list for August?

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Glad to have you along!!! 8mo
LiteraryinLawrence Congrats on taking the plunge to become a teacher! 8mo
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