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Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg

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amberfrost's review against another edition

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medium-paced

3.0

As many others have mentioned, there’s some ableism and ignorance around “Asperger’s” and “HSP” - neither of which are recognized medical diagnoses. I really didn’t want to like anything about this book after it spent an entire chapter on HSPs. However, as someone who has recently began to understand my own neurodivergence as an adult, there were some helpful tidbits around sensory sensitivities. 
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mj_james_writes's review against another edition

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She claimed that racism, homophobia, and transphobia were all taken care of so now people needed to make the same acceptance for ADHD and autism. What a privileged view. What white person has the right to say racism isn’t a concern anymore? And I know first hand homophobia and transphobia are still a major concern. More then having to pass because of my autism. Then she goes on to say that she is just going to use women to refer to all genders because it is a genderless experience. But if it is a genderless experience then why did you specifically search out for research on women? Because it is not! Just own that. Say you are only talking about cis women don’t discount my non-binary identity! There is validity it talking about the cis women experience for neurodivergency and I could have accepted that. But instead you defended yourself by invalidating the large percentage of non-binary and trans autistic and neurodivergent people. And I only made it to page 9!  
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