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Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition

Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

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Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition

By: Sarah Hendrickx, Jess Hendrickx, Judith Gould - introduction
Narrated by: Lucie McNeil
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Comprehensive overview of autism in females with lived experience accounts and latest research.

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of an autistic person is hugely significant. In this widely expanded 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.

With up-to-date content on masking, diagnosis later in life, and a new focus on trans and non-binary voices, as well as a deeper dive into specific health and wellbeing implications including menopause, PCOS, Hypermobility/Ehlers-Danlos, autistic burnout, and alexithymia, this is an invaluable companion for professionals, as well as a guiding light for women with autism to understand and interpret their own experience in context.

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When my masks started falling off post menopause, and increasingly being asked if I had ASD, I started reading information, this book has helped me recognise myself and start my journey to diagnosis

How to recognise yourself

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This book is like the missing jigsaw piece in helping me understand myself and understand my diagnosis.

Will read numerous times

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I found this book really helpful and interesting. it is definitely one that I will be reading again.

very informative

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It was like someone understood the inside of my head better than I did. I felt I could finally understand myself as an autistic and as a woman. It also gave me insight into how others saw the world from their own point of view and I only wished I had this book when I was younger, as it would have helped me navigate so much about my own mind.

It was like someone understand the inside of my head better than I did.

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I’ve got a huge amount out of the content of this book (though like another reviewer I found the endless insertion of inline references so disrupting) but what I really struggled with was the strong regional dialect of the narrator. Don’t get me wrong, she reads clearly and it’s even a dialect I find quite pleasant in short bursts but, and this is somewhat ironic given I am the intended audience, my autistic brain eventually found it jarring to have to cope with so many regionally pronounced words, especially the word book which occurs many, many times throughout (“boooook”). I found this and the referencing so fatiguing to listen to that I’ve had to stop and start the audio after short time spans of listening and have (so far) managed to listen to about six other books on autism in their entirety during the same timespan that I’ve been picking up and dropping this one, which is taking months (6 so far). The result is I keep feeling like I lose momentum with the material and need to backtrack to remind myself where I am, upsetting my overall enjoyment or sense of the authors message. I’ve yet to finish listening and just had to pause (again) to express my growing annoyance with pronunciation, especially now that I’m onto the food chapter where “coooook” had been added to “boooook”. Without going for robotic, I think the more neutral the delivery the better when keeping neurodivergent audiences in mind and I do think this was a bizarre choice of dialect outside of a regionally appropriate novel.

Brilliant book, narration challenging

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