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Laura james writes movingly about her experiences and she writes well. She writes of always feeling like the odd person out. I felt like i was right in the trenches with her, as she struggled to make sense of her life. Thank you laura.

The author's partner is autistic. The book is an immersion in the mind of an autistic person. He was particularly fascinated by the “savant skill’. It’s a skill i don’t have physically," she says.

Odd girl out is the memoir of a woman who was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome as an adult. Laura james is unusual in that she was diagnosed as autistic as a adult. Since her husband is decidedly not autistic, it's also a very good look at what life... Read More

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The positive highlights about being autistic are ‘meh’ at best. The author uses a cookie cutter type description.

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Quality

Loved her voice, and she really helped me understand the interior world of someone on the spectrum.

My partner of 22 years is autistic and this book offered hope, love and real life stories that are so similar to mine it made me cry.

With one or two minor differences, it mirrors my own life, that feeling of not belonging anywhere and desperately wishing i could.

Her diagnosis is a revelation— good and bad — but she shares her decisiins and efforts to make life better.

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This product had a total of 1,195 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 18 2024.