Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

Such a wonderful book. So I decided to write a review.
I feel seen and understood trough the book. I remembered stuff from my childhood which I hadn‘t remembered a long time.

She writes from the point of view of a fairytale about the life, especially the life with ADHD and ASS. And that we all will find our „happily ever after“. I really can’t wait to find mine. At the moment I am hopefully that i will find it.

And I really hope that the book will be translated into german, so I can give it to my mum. Maybe it helps her to understand me, too. So it’s not just for sufferers, it may helps also others to understand sufferers better!

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bookish_jena's review

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

Despite not being the target audience for this book, or having read much non-fiction in my time, I wanted to pick up Chloé’s book to get an insight into the life of a neurodivergent person from the source. And this book definitely delivered on that.

I think it is a really important and enlightening read for neurodivergent and neurotypical people alike. It was interesting to see the research and facts displayed against Chloé’s lived experiences to further understand the lives of neurodivergent, and more specifically autistic and ADHD, people.

I liked the Disney references woven through to reinforce the point, particularly given the fact that Disney is one of Chloé’s “eye sparkles”.

The writing style was easy to read and follow, and it was more enjoyable than I thought it might be, not being a big reader of non-fiction books. The book is not perfect, it could’ve been refined slightly in terms of repetition and there are a few references that could’ve been phrased a bit better to get the point across clearer but I think for what the book is at its core and how it stands out compared to others on the same topic, these can be pushed aside and don’t make the book any less worthy of being a must-read.

I really hope this can be the start of resources about neurodiversity written for and by neurodivergent people because, as Chloé highlights, there is a severe deficiency at this stage.

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casuallycharlie's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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lara_r's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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nibs's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

Giving it a rating is a bit weird, because yes parts of it are a memoir, but its also an informative guide. Given I just got an autism diagnosis, it gave a lot of helpful information for me, and a thorough intro to current disability activism in the neurodivergence space.

Chloe's voice came through really strongly and she owned her experience. Yes, there's lots of Disney metaphors, but that's Chloe's jam so who cares if they're a bit corny. This book is a useful resource and I plan to lend it to people.

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funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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