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Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations. Autistic advocates including Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Jeanette Purkis, Artemisia and Samantha Craft offer their personal guidance on significant issues that particularly affect women, as well as those that are more general to autism.

This audiobook looks at what it feels like to be an autistic parent, offering valuable insights, knowledge and wisdom on parenting autistic and non-autistic children. Three mothers reflect on their experiences of growing up as undiagnosed autistics, venturing into and embracing motherhood, and connecting with their children in a unique and powerful way. Full of wit and warm advice, this audiobook empowers autistic parents and reassures them that autism is a strength in raising their children with love, knowledge and experience.

A diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights how parents can avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, and make their child feel truly accepted, valued, and celebrated for who they are. Most resources available for parents come from psychologists, educators, and doctors, offering...

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of an autistic person is hugely significant. In this second edition, Sarah Hendrickx combines the latest research with personal stories from girls and women on the autism spectrum to present a picture of their feelings, thoughts and experiences at each stage of their lives. Outlining the likely impact will be for autistic women and girls throughout their lifespan, Hendrickx surveys everything from diagnosis, childhood, education, adolescence, friendships and sexuality, to employment, pregnancy, parenting, and aging.

During the first 30 years of her life, comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a cry baby, a scaredy cat, a spoiled brat, a weirdo, a show off - but more than anything else, she'd been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her behaviour, her meltdowns or her intense emotions. She felt like everyone else knew a social secret that she hadn't been let in on, as if life was a party she hadn't been invited to. Why was everything so damn hard?

At Clean Slate Ranch, the men are rugged, the trails are rocky and lassos aren’t only used for roping horses For Colt Woods, Clean Slate Ranch is home. The dude ranch in Northern California helped him heal from a devastating breakup. So when his ex-Dom, the man who broke his heart, waltzes...

Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story”, how the process almost ruined her life, and how she is now trying to recover.

De Britse Lucy ondervindt de kracht van sisterhood wanneer ze verliefd wordt op een Nederlandse man. Een weduwnaar, Dinand Woesthoff, met wiens verlies heel Nederland meeleeft: de dood van de geliefde actrice Guusje Nederhorst. Lucy is nog maar vierentwintig als ze in zijn leven en dat van zijn zoontje komt. Maar ze beseft al snel: de enige manier om liefde te vinden in verdriet en toekomst in verlies, is verbinding maken. Verbinding met Guusje. Van vrouw tot vrouw. Met het verstrijken der jaren, ervaart Lucy op meer manieren de kracht van de vrouw.

Em Rusciano has some stories to tell! In the space of a few short years, she quit breakfast radio, birthed her third child and staged a sold-out tour across the country – all before being hurled headfirst into the existential crisis of lockdowns. She felt everything at full volume: the burnout, the joy, the rage ... and a deeply inconvenient urge to get into craft.

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.

Het gesticht van Salpêtrière, 1885. Heel Parijs is in de ban van dokter Charcot en zijn openbare hypnosesessies, waarbij hij gek of hysterisch verklaarde vrouwen behandelt. Het uitschot van de samenleving. Maar zijn ze wel gek, of heeft de maatschappij de vrouwen als dusdanig bestempeld om van hen af te zijn? Eén avond per jaar lijkt deze vraag irrelevant, als de Parijse elite danst met de gek verklaarde vrouwen. Het bal der gekken is voor zowel de elite als de verbannen vrouwen het hoogtepunt van het jaar en voor de laatsten een zeldzaam moment van hoop.