Reviews tagging 'Classism'

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman

5 reviews

maximauve's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Colonisation, Medical trauma, and Classism

changelingreader_adrian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Medical content, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Child abuse, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Classism, Antisemitism, Torture, Medical trauma, Hate crime, and Racial slurs

Minor: Xenophobia, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, and Transphobia

annapox's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child death, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Hate crime, Animal cruelty, Racism, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Animal death, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Islamophobia, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

We have always been here. Everyone should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Ableism, Antisemitism, Classism, Confinement, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Transphobia

ashton_n's review against another edition

If I could give this negative stars, I would. 

Let’s get this straight, a neurotypical person should not be writing a history and guide about neurodiverse folks. The most important but ironically lacking in description are the following items.
- Asperger’s and Autism are not interchangeable, see below.  
- The use of Aspergers is totally outdated, and the guy it was named after tortured Autistic kids. 
-High and low functioning labels are damaging.
- Autism Speaks is a hate charity. 
- The introduction starts off with how terrible Autism is and how it needed to be eradicated. An intro should caveat and have disclaimers about current and past assumptions. Autism does not need to be eradicated. It isn’t a disease. 
- the whole thing, so freaking boring. Like does he ever stop rambling.
- This is a colonial whitewashed, classist, cis-heteropatriarchal ableist account of Autism. 

Follow the hashtags below or talk to real Autistic people. We don’t bite. 🙄
#actuallyautistic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Ableism, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

Don’t read this garbage, talk to real autistic people.