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Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

A Guide for Autistic Wellbeing

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Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

By: Luke Beardon
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Are you an autistic adult? Do you love, live or work with an autistic adult? The incredible insights and practical strategies in this audiobook will diminish your stress and anxiety if you are autistic and will help your autistic loved one or colleague live well, flourish and thrive if you can improve and adjust their environment if you aren't.

One of the biggest challenges if you are an autistic adult (or suspect you might be) is navigating the situations that to the predominantly neurotypical population might appear completely benign but cause you huge stress, anxiety and worry.

At work, at university, in social situations, in friendships, relationships, in shops, in unfamiliar environments - there are a wealth of things that can make you feel overwhelmed if the world is full of things that you feel nobody else notices but that cause you huge distress.

Dr Luke Beardon has put together an optimistic and upbeat guide that will be essential listening not just for any autistic adult, but for anyone who loves, lives with or works with an autistic person. Emphasising that autism is not behaviour, but at the same time acknowledging that there are risks of increased anxiety specific to autism, this practical audiobook gives clear strategies that the autistic person can adopt to minimise their anxiety and live comfortably in a world full of what may seem to be noise and chaos.

At the same time, Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults gives clear guidelines and mission statements to those who live or work with autistic people that they, too, can implement to accommodate needs that are different to their own, taking a radical new step towards a genuinely inclusive world in which autistic people don't just survive, but in which they thrive.

©2021 Luke Beardon (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Children's Health Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Autism Health Special need
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"A must-read." (Kieran Rose, The Autistic Advocate)

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It's ok but best suited to young people, or NTs who may not understand some of the struggles autistic people face. It promotes reflectivity on what indirect discrimination is at work, for example, having to work in a sensory anxiety-inducing environment. It is wrote by an autistic author, but it is not deep book, it is helpful for awareness but most autistic people will already know what is in the book.

Good for HR and people who may not know much about autism.

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As an adult with ASD this book was superb anyone with ASD or knows someone with ASD should read/listen to it

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This book by Dr Luke Beardon is an incredibly profound and in depth depiction illuminating the lesser known aspects of what it means to be autistic. Autistic voices, historically excluded, are heard loud and clear throughout making this insightful piece, absobloominlutely, a must read.

Profound, illuminating, and beautifully insightful

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Like a lot of books this could have been shorter but the strategy and some of tactics were really helpful. Thank you

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As an adult who has come to identification throughs struggles with anxiety, the was an immensely helpful book. It has some great advice on self acceptance, sense of identity and ideas for asserting your own needs and boundaries. It would also be a great read for partners, friends and family of autistic adults.

Very helpful for newly identified adult

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