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teatowel's review against another edition
informative
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5.0
Everyone should read this.
basil_blastname's review against another edition
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5.0
matty_barone's review against another edition
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5.0
I feel so seen after reading this book. There were so many stories throughout this book that were relatable to my own experiences through masking. I’ve always known there was something different and it wasn’t until someone asked me what two and seven had in common that I even considered I’d actually be a bit neurospicy.
Not only did this book give information on how to unmask but how to help identify your strawberry people.
If you know me personally, this might help you understand me as a person better. If you don’t, I’m sure that someone out there in your circle needs you to read this.
Not only did this book give information on how to unmask but how to help identify your strawberry people.
If you know me personally, this might help you understand me as a person better. If you don’t, I’m sure that someone out there in your circle needs you to read this.
adelaide_reads's review against another edition
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4.75
anniestonebarger's review against another edition
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4.0
theeroach's review against another edition
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This book has really helped me gain insight into my own life and experiences. It was often hard to read, having to stop to cry sometimes because I was overwhelmed by the feeling of finally making sense of so much of my life that I thought I was alone in dealing with. I would highly recommend you read this book if you are questioning your own neurodiversity, but I would also highly recommend Allistic people read this book as well. We are taught so many unfair stereotypes about Autistic people in our lives through mainstream media, I think if everyone read this book and took time to reflect more people would extend empathy to those they don’t understand. I myself didn’t get the targeted help I needed because for so long I assumed to be Autistic was to be a cold unfeeling brainiac or a person stuck in a childlike state. I never realize how broad the Autistic community was, how ranged the experiences of Autistic people were. And I never would have guessed that I would have identified so strongly with those experiences. I can’t say enough good things about this book, Highly recommend!!! ❤️
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hb_bookworm's review against another edition
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I leave this book feeling pretty frustrated, because there are a lot of concepts here that were very helpful to me personally understanding myself better - and that was precisely my problem with the book. I, like the author, am a relatively well off white transmasc person with overall low support needs that give me the flexibility, privilege, and ability to unmask in specific ways. I really wish the author had done more to say that this was the case. You can see he's making an effort to include more perspectives, but it comes off as just interviewing his personal friends and having the same lines worded slightly differently in each chapter about how unmasking is unsafe and even deadly for Black and brown Autistics. it almost feels tokenizing to say that over and over but not offer more insights through more interviews? I was also frustrated with the description of cluster B diagnoses - there was not even the basic sentence I was hoping for expressing empathy for how poorly cluster B folks are treated in mental health spaces, just "Autistic people can get misdiagnosed with BPD and that's bad because BPD is so stigmatized" - like yes but can we go one step deeper here please about how that's ALSO bad? literally one sentence would have made me less frustrated and the fact that it's not there really rubbed me the wrong way. I think overall the book bit off more than it could chew with how it's framed - I agree with other reviewers that if it was pitched differently and couched in a little more genuine self awareness I think I would have been less frustrated.