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A review by christineasi
Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life by Cynthia Kim
3.0
This rating may be based more on the fact that I've over-indulged in books in a similar vein and hence have exhausted my capacity to entertain them, rather than the quality of this books' writing and content.
I think of the saying "if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person" and whether it should also apply to books on autism, "if you've read one book on autism, you've read one book on autism" and hence should I be reading deeper into each book to find its uniqueness..?!
But, like I've reached limits on my past special interests of jigsaws or cross stitch, I think I've reached my limit on reading this type of book, which I guess can be characterised as the genre "female writers diagnosed autistic later in life write about their life through the lens of their diagnosis, with a slight dose of text book vibes"
My one critique/query I would put to the author is the consistent use of "Aspie" given it's been removed from use and the unpleasant history of the person who named that diagnosis.
If this was the first book under the aforementioned genre I read, it would likely be 4.5 stars.
I think of the saying "if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person" and whether it should also apply to books on autism, "if you've read one book on autism, you've read one book on autism" and hence should I be reading deeper into each book to find its uniqueness..?!
But, like I've reached limits on my past special interests of jigsaws or cross stitch, I think I've reached my limit on reading this type of book, which I guess can be characterised as the genre "female writers diagnosed autistic later in life write about their life through the lens of their diagnosis, with a slight dose of text book vibes"
My one critique/query I would put to the author is the consistent use of "Aspie" given it's been removed from use and the unpleasant history of the person who named that diagnosis.
If this was the first book under the aforementioned genre I read, it would likely be 4.5 stars.