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A review by thepurplebookwyrm
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
Did not finish book. Stopped at 31%.
DNF 31% – Not useful at all to me, way too interested in US-style identity politics/"social justice", contradictory in some ways as well, hard pass.
Bonus: don't conflate being autistic with being transgender, please and thank you. I'm sure there are plenty of folks who'd have been trans, regardless of neurotype, but the fact is there are also autistic people who only question their "gender identity" because their neurotype affords them a head start, so to speak, in questioning, and contesting, the BS of gender... then some of us embrace (proper) feminist theory from a young age and understand that "failing" to be feminine/masculine doesn't change our sex. :) But clearly, autistic people with my experience of 'gender-non-conformity' don't exist, or shouldn't have a voice at any rate. So yeah, fuck that. :)
Oh, and yeah, the stuff about sex work and BDSM I skim-read is kinda weird, and definitely questionable.
Addendum: I'm going to go ahead and give a low rating of two stars, because I learned that a) the author isn't even diagnosed autistic, and b) they basically admit in one of their blog posts that they at least partly transitioned to 'escape' from misogyny... given some of the comments made in the book, I can't let that abject level of hypocrisy slide.
Bonus: don't conflate being autistic with being transgender, please and thank you. I'm sure there are plenty of folks who'd have been trans, regardless of neurotype, but the fact is there are also autistic people who only question their "gender identity" because their neurotype affords them a head start, so to speak, in questioning, and contesting, the BS of gender... then some of us embrace (proper) feminist theory from a young age and understand that "failing" to be feminine/masculine doesn't change our sex. :) But clearly, autistic people with my experience of 'gender-non-conformity' don't exist, or shouldn't have a voice at any rate. So yeah, fuck that. :)
Oh, and yeah, the stuff about sex work and BDSM I skim-read is kinda weird, and definitely questionable.
Addendum: I'm going to go ahead and give a low rating of two stars, because I learned that a) the author isn't even diagnosed autistic, and b) they basically admit in one of their blog posts that they at least partly transitioned to 'escape' from misogyny... given some of the comments made in the book, I can't let that abject level of hypocrisy slide.