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A review by dutchlauren
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood
2.0
A bit dry, very heteronormative, and mostly focused on children and teenagers, but adults are not completely ignored. I learned some things, about alexithymia and apraxia especially. I'm glad dyscalculia was mentioned because I've never read about it in combination with Asperger's before.
Author used the word 'asexual' when he should have used 'celibate', which bothers me greatly as an asexual person.
Overall, this guide is not very complete (as the title implies), and a bit outdated. Also, I mentally threw up every time I saw Simon Baron-Cohen mentioned (we don't like him), and that was A LOT.
This would not be the first book about Asperger's I'd recommend. So far, Rudy Simone's Aspergirls has been the best! (Only focused on women though!)
Author used the word 'asexual' when he should have used 'celibate', which bothers me greatly as an asexual person.
Overall, this guide is not very complete (as the title implies), and a bit outdated. Also, I mentally threw up every time I saw Simon Baron-Cohen mentioned (we don't like him), and that was A LOT.
This would not be the first book about Asperger's I'd recommend. So far, Rudy Simone's Aspergirls has been the best! (Only focused on women though!)