Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. Just that I personally felt their perspective/experience held more space than perhaps appropriate on those pages.

Jeg synes det var hårdt at blive mindet om alle de små “double takes” og folk misbilligende blikke om træder ved siden af. In media (social and otherwise) I find there’s often a focus on sympathy/praise for the parents rather than on the experiences of autistic people. Autism) incredibly well and I thought Limburg’s treatment of the more sensitive subjects was extremely compassionate. Hun reflekterer også hvorfor den måde vi snakker om folk med intellektuelle handicap på er skadelige, især konceptet mental alder. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.I could honestly gush about this book for ages, so I'll stop myself now and just finish by saying that I would recommend this to anybody.

I did feel the letter writing aspect lost it’s way a little, each letter started strongly, but then moved into a tangent that was more focussed on Limburg than on the recipient of the letter. The bleeding edge of autistic advocacy seems to be on social media and what the medium often lacks is nuance. Following a midlife Autism diagnosis, Limburg sets out to find “other women who had been misunderstood in their time.The author’s reinterpretation of scientists who thought mothers were cold to their autistic sons, as unobservant males who couldn’t see mothers who were well-attuned to their sons’ strong preference for increased physical distance and decreased conversation, was eye-opening.