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Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After by Chloé Hayden

29 reviews

swanny_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is one of the first books I've read about neurodiversity from a neurodiverse person. 

I'm on my own journey, and I appreciated reading a story that echoed feelings I had growing up and experiences that I still have today. 

I found occasionally it repeated something that had been said, but that's not a bad thing just an observation. 

This is another tool that can help me on my own self discovery, and I hope will help me feel better that I'm 33 trying to figure this out. 

I've listed some triggers in the list, but those triggers are labelled in the book as well. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Suicide, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Self harm, and Child abuse

raventheclaw19's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

This was a good book. It was nice to read a book about autism by an autistic author. I didn’t really learn a lot, but it was good to learn about other people’s experiences. 
I liked the content warnings (though I do wish there had been a warning for the discussions of bullying) and the markers of exactly where the triggering content was. I thought that was incredibly helpful. I liked the combination of memoir, self-help, and information about autism. It was well-balanced, which I feel like most nonfiction books of that type struggle to pull off. 
I’m docking half a point because I wish Hayden would’ve done more with the Disney movie analogies (you can’t lead the book by saying you’re going to connect everything to three Disney movies and then reference ten movies, and only a few times in the entire book). And, good god, the fucking grammar. I don’t care about UK/Australian spellings, but use the goddamn Oxford comma!!! And there were a lot of sentences that didn’t quite make sense, or redundant paragraphs that could’ve been removed. 
I’m also just a little bummed because I didn’t find it super helpful. I think that if I’d read this when I was first learning about being autistic, it would’ve been great, but now I’m at a place where I accept myself so I didn’t really need most of what Hayden was saying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, and Ableism

Moderate: Sexual assault

peachani's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Medical content, Sexual assault, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, and Panic attacks/disorders

lavendermoons's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

Please read the trigger warnings! I can't give this book a star rating just because I wasn't in the right mindset and it also wasn't what I expected. I was looking for more of a guide and less of a memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Minor: Rape

nutmegvotour's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Bullying, and Ableism

ballerinacat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Ableism

Moderate: Eating disorder

thisthat100's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring

3.5

As an autistic person, I have settled for crumbs when autistic people are represented in the media which makes it more refreshing that, along with Hannah Gadsby's memoir, there are mainstream platforms for unapologetically autistic perspectives.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Ableism

There are trigger warnings in this book to help prepare you for some of the more intense themes in this book.

aseel_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Hands down one of the best books ever, as well as one of the best ND resources I've consumed. I felt very seen and reminded that I'm worthy of good things. I definitely will be forcing all of my ND friends to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Ableism

Moderate: Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Vomit

bookwormdystopian2's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, and Ableism

swiftlyjo's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

3.5

3,5 stars maybe? An easy and accessible read which does a good job at highlighting what autism actually is. I personally would've loved a little more analysis because sometimes this becomes very anecdotal and some truly interesting points get brushed over a little too quickly (I would've loved an entire essay about how autistic women are so great at masking because being a woman is in itself being taught to disguise oneself) but Chloé is really lovely and it's nice hearing about her happy ever after :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Bullying, and Sexual assault