Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity by Devon Price

78 reviews

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I Feel so incredibly seen and understand! So many memories from childhood and adolescence have come flooding in and they make sense now. It’s like putting everything into a new perspective where I’m realizing “it wasn’t my fault, I was never the problem!” 😭

I’ve cried so much from finally feeling understood and knowing what was “wrong” my whole life-

The amount of times I gasped and said “wait I’m not the only one who felt like this/experienced this/does this”

So helpful in my journey, and incredibly validating since starting to look into diagnosis.

It’s been ups and downs of “I can’t possibly have autism” to “maybe I am autistic? hmm I’m relating a little too well to some of these things” to “let’s take a test” “well after many tests I think I’m definitely autistic” to “nah I’m probably faking it…nope def autistic“

It’s been a long and difficult process of accepting this new part of myself (even though I’ve been autistic all along it’s a lot to take in). It’s saddening to realize how much of what I was bullied for growing up was because of my autistic traits but I have hope I can learn to unmask and learn to love the parts of myself that I’ve been taught to hate or needed to “fix” for so long

Incredible resource I recommend to anyone who is Autistic or thinks they may be autistic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Bullying, and Transphobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

charlinem's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, and Addiction

astropova's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Sexism, and Transphobia

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

As an autistic person, this is easily my favourite book about autism. It centers the perspectives and experiences of autistics over neurotypicals, which is unfortunately quite unique in this genre. The author strikes a great balance between being well-researched and clearly cited, while also being easy to read and not overly dense.

The book taught me a lot about autistic experiences, even though I consider myself to be well-informed on the topic. With this in mind, I'd recommend it for anyone no matter your level of autism knowledge. The author validated so many elements of my autistic experiences, even those that I have not seen widely discussed (such as substance abuse disorders and eating disorders within autistic communities). 

I also appreciate the author's focus on both individual solutions and systemic ones. We can't change an ableist society on our own, but there are ways for us to thrive as autistic individuals in society.

Just a phenomenal read all around!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Domestic abuse

olivebananas's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

moondreaming's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Ableism

returningb00kworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Racism, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

zombiezami's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Bullying, Ableism, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Medical content, Sexism, Torture, Transphobia, Colonisation, Mental illness, Biphobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Racism, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Vomit, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

d3vilsw0lf's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

After recently finding out I am autistic this has been an invaluable resource for me to better my understanding of the hidden disability I've been living with my entire life. 
Dr Price is very direct in the points he makes and uses interviews with other autistic people and studies that have been conductied to show how individualistic the disability can be, as well as how many parts of the disability overlap a wider group of people. The exercises are informative and, for me, eye-opening on how autism looks like in day-to-day lives. I'm very glad I found this book.
The only criticism I have is that I did have to pause multiple times as I read through the book due to things clicking into place from my past being down to undiagnosed autism, however I fully understand that is my experience reading the book with my life experience so is not a guarantee for everyone reading the book.
Thank you Dr Price for writing this book and being able to show me that autism isn't just a disability but far more than a label.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

The content warnings are more things discussed around the topic of autism and can be signs of trauma from being undiagnosed autistic and a neurotypical world

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism