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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
challenging
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A truthful and honest book detailing James’ life after her autism diagnosis. I found some parallels between Jones’ childhood and my own, but there were equally as many, if not more, differences between us, just confirming that each autistic person is amazingly unique.
Decent writing, more just a retelling of the facts interspersed with James’ opinions, which are quite repetitive, but I believe this fits best with the book, considering it is the story of an autistic person’s life, so should be written however this autistic person wants it to be written.
There were lots of interesting tales from her life and also stories that she has heard from fellow autistic people. The only thing that I, personally, didn’t like was that for the majority of the Book, James treats autism as something that she can blame all her faults on and repeatedly says that she wants to be cured and stuff like that. I didn’t like this attitude at all, but towards the end of the book she does become more accepting of her diagnosis and aims to embrace it in her life rather than fight against it.
My rating = 7/10
Decent writing, more just a retelling of the facts interspersed with James’ opinions, which are quite repetitive, but I believe this fits best with the book, considering it is the story of an autistic person’s life, so should be written however this autistic person wants it to be written.
There were lots of interesting tales from her life and also stories that she has heard from fellow autistic people. The only thing that I, personally, didn’t like was that for the majority of the Book, James treats autism as something that she can blame all her faults on and repeatedly says that she wants to be cured and stuff like that. I didn’t like this attitude at all, but towards the end of the book she does become more accepting of her diagnosis and aims to embrace it in her life rather than fight against it.
My rating = 7/10
I enjoyed this. It was cool to see what i related to and what I didn’t. It was sweet to see her as she processed her diagnosis and what she made of it and very cool to see how she navigated her romantic relationship!
It's like someone took my late diagnosed brain and smeared it all over the pages (in a good way) for the first time ever I feel like I can actually relate to someone
Again, memoirs are hard to rate, like these are someone experiences and life who am i to rate that? but I have been wanting to read more books about women with autism especially those diagnosed later in life. This particular book was more of a recollection of the author when she was initially diagnosed, I found that there weren’t much reflection of her experiences but I still appreciated learning with her along the way about how she has been living her life after being diagnosed with autism.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
slow-paced