Aspergirls
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3.8 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Award winning handbook for girls and women on the autism spectrum, perceptive and wise reflections and advice .
*Gold Medal Winner in the Sexuality / Relationships Category of the 2011 IPPY Awards*
* Honorary Mention in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Women's Issues Category *
The award-winning handbook for girls and women on the autism spectrum, perceptive and wise reflections and advice.
Girls with Asperger's Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, and even once symptoms have been recognised, help is often not readily available. The image of coping well presented by AS females of any age can often mask difficulties, deficits, challenges, and loneliness.
This is a must-have handbook written by an Aspergirl for Aspergirls, young and old. Rudy Simone guides you through every aspect of both personal and professional life, from early recollections of blame, guilt, and savant skills, to friendships, romance and marriage. Employment, career, rituals and routines are also covered, along with depression, meltdowns and being misunderstood. Including the reflections of over thirty-five women diagnosed as on the spectrum, as well as some partners and parents, Rudy identifies recurring struggles and areas where Aspergirls need validation, information and advice. As they recount their stories, anecdotes, and wisdom, she highlights how differences between males and females on the spectrum are mostly a matter of perception, rejecting negative views of Aspergirls and empowering them to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
This book will be essential reading for females of any age diagnosed with AS, and those who think they might be on the spectrum. It will also be of interest to partners and loved ones of Aspergirls, and anybody interested either professionally or academically in Asperger's Syndrome.
(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Customer Reviews
1 ⭐️ simply because you have to in order to review, and people need to be warned.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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).