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Laura james writes movingly about her experiences and she writes well. Her explanations of how she becomes hyper focused are something that i had observed, and her descriptions did give me a bit of an idea of how that feels. This is a must read for an... Read More
Cons
The positive highlights about being autistic are “meh” at best. Maybe it's because i was a bit turned off when i started to realize she appeared to be using a cookie cutter type description.
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It’s a skill i don’t have physically.
It informs, enlightens and intrigues as a deeply personal story that also addresses wider societal issues.
He was particularly fascinated by the “savants”.
Competitiveness
Besides being a game-changer just by broadening my awareness and my comfort with my own behaviors, this book was a really great read.
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autistic and many. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 566 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 26 2022.
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Too often stories of autism are told by people who arent autistic
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If you are not nuerotypical you will be able to relate to this book
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If you suspect you might be asd its so worth it to read through this
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A lot of other books about aspergers make the aspergers the topic and not the person living with it the books seem like a heres my unusual approach to life and my excessive behaviors and im putting it all out there and making that the star of this book a sort of instruction manual for aspbergers or a fictional novelization of superquirky people where their quirks define them
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I ordered this book a few weeks ago and it wasnt expected until midmay
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Now of course we refer to autism as being on “the spectrum” so it acknowledges varying degrees of this mental architecture
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I find her prediction of the brexit vote and that of trump winning quite revealing as the polls said otherwise
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Given she was female the lack of social skills present even a greater hazard
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