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Tag: Memoir
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Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My LifeAuthor: Emily Katy Category: Memoir Publisher: Monoray Publication date: 28 March 2024 Blurb: ‘Emily’s moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health services to provide any kind of meaningful improvement for autistic people. Should be essential reading for mental health professionals and anyone with autism in their lives’ – FERN BRADY, author of…
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Review: Growing In To Autism
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Growing In To AutismAuthor: Sandra Thom-Jones Category: Memoir Publisher: Melbourne University Press Publication date: 30 August 2022 Blurb: What’s it like to realise you’re autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life: she had a great career, a beautiful home, a caring husband,…
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Review: Late Bloomer
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Late BloomerAuthor: Clem Bastow Category: Memoir Publisher: Hardie Grant Books Publication date: 7 July 2021 Blurb: Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she’d missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social…
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Review: Little Victories
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Little VictoriesAuthor: Yvon Roy Category: Memoir Publisher: Titan Books Publication date: 7 July 2020 Blurb: The award-winning graphic novel autobiography of a father, and the challenges he faces raising his autistic son. A beautiful visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son’s autism. Faced with a challenging road ahead, the author…
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Autistic & ADHD Books
Continue Reading: Autistic & ADHD BooksI find that books help me to understand the world. One of the first things I did when I got my diagnosis was to hit the library & read some books. These books focus on stories and characters that are autistic and/or ADHD. I know there are many other things that fall under the neurodivergent…