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

25 reviews

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Outing, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Transphobia

Minor: Alcoholism

spacekee's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Bullying

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Police brutality, and Sexism

nat_montego's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Transphobia

ryyyaaan's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is wonderful. To any autistic person or anyone with friends, family members, or loved ones who are autistic, you should read this. I feel so seen. I feel like I understand myself and my disability better. I feel more okay with myself.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Sexism, Classism, Mental illness, and Ableism

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Racism

zosiablue's review against another edition

hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

I read this because a friend suggested I might recognize myself and I did. While I don't need to lean into another diagnosis, I felt seen by many of these autistic/neurodivergent traits (especially as a kid), and also disabused of what autism is typically depicted as (white, male, middle class, nerdy). Mostly, whether it's autism or anxiety or what, this helped me pay attention to how I mask in the world, the ways I've adapted so I seem quirky but not off putting, bubbly but not annoying, and self-preserved but not too distant. I wonder what it would look like if I stopped the balancing act? Would I have more energy? Would I feel less cognitive dissonance? This is a good book to help you figure that out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Eating disorder

kjoli's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia, Addiction, Ableism, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Drug use, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Racism, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Police brutality, Bullying, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting

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

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