Review of 'Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age' on 'Goodreads'
This feels like a book that's really good at describing the currently researched experiences of women with autism. But a lot of how this book gets reviewed is based on what the reader got from it. In that sense, I'm not the best reader for it. The book starts by saying it assumes familiarity with what autism spectrum disorder is, and just expands on what it is for women specifically. And I don't have that familiarity, nor do I feel like I got it from this book.
I took up the book because tiktok was annoying me by giving me "women with autism" content some of which I identified with, a lot of which was nonsense (confirmation bias, just plain wrong memes) and overall made me confused, so I did the responsible thing and got a more reliable resource on the subject. However the experience remains similar in that in …
This feels like a book that's really good at describing the currently researched experiences of women with autism. But a lot of how this book gets reviewed is based on what the reader got from it. In that sense, I'm not the best reader for it. The book starts by saying it assumes familiarity with what autism spectrum disorder is, and just expands on what it is for women specifically. And I don't have that familiarity, nor do I feel like I got it from this book.
I took up the book because tiktok was annoying me by giving me "women with autism" content some of which I identified with, a lot of which was nonsense (confirmation bias, just plain wrong memes) and overall made me confused, so I did the responsible thing and got a more reliable resource on the subject. However the experience remains similar in that in every chapter I identify with a sentence or two, and then not with the whole intensity of it. Or the other way around, I start a chapter by thinkin "ok, this will finally prove that this is not me, as this sounds very not me" and later in the chapter I'd get hit with the one sentence I do identify with.
What I didn't get from the book was a sense of how autism explains what. It feels like all I have are these different examples, but for once in my life I don't see the pattern that binds them. And for all the citations the book had, in regards to where I should look for the initial familiarity with autism it just said "there's a lot of good resources and books".
