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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

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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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