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girlwithherheadinabook 's review for:
Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
by Laura James
For my full review: http://girlwithherheadinabook.co.uk/2017/12/review-odd-girl-out-laura-james.html
Laura James was an ordinary woman - married, four children, successful career. But then she was diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome. Odd Girl Out is in parts memoir as she looks back on her life and re-examines how her long unnoticed autism has stalked her along the way, but the book is also an attempt to understand better what it means to be on the autistic spectrum. Female memoirs have become increasingly common in recent years but James engages with her subject with a great deal of intelligence and with a clear desire to look not for sympathy but for solutions, not for a cure but for improved consideration. No matter one's relationship to autism, whether or not one is within the spectrum, James' perspective is an interesting one and well worth the heeding.
Laura James was an ordinary woman - married, four children, successful career. But then she was diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome. Odd Girl Out is in parts memoir as she looks back on her life and re-examines how her long unnoticed autism has stalked her along the way, but the book is also an attempt to understand better what it means to be on the autistic spectrum. Female memoirs have become increasingly common in recent years but James engages with her subject with a great deal of intelligence and with a clear desire to look not for sympathy but for solutions, not for a cure but for improved consideration. No matter one's relationship to autism, whether or not one is within the spectrum, James' perspective is an interesting one and well worth the heeding.