And I'll save my criticisms of treating "Highly Sensitive Person" like an actual diagnosis because oh my god. I think this would be useful for someone who is completely new to any of the forms of neurodivergence contained within the book, but otherwise this isn’t that great. I really found this enlightening; this is, in some ways, the successor to Susan Cain's "Quiet", the book about introversion. I picked this up because as an autistic woman, I'm always looking for new books about neurodiversity, but I was honestly quite disappointed.

I was also extremely confused about the focus on 'sensitivity' as if that was the only qualifier for being neurodivergent. Reads as an extremely out of touch hr manual which is especially jarring considering how much passion the author clearly has for the topic.It felt like everyone interviewed was a professionally successful woman, there is no mention of blue collar work and nothing on the massive racial disparities that currently exist.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. For a book published in 2020, you'd think that the author would realize that "Asperger's" is outdated, or at least mention it (or it's historical connotations). This book was a great first step into understanding women who are neurodivergent and how certain women have adapted and struggled because of their “differences”. It isn't a "new study", as one of the back blurbs describes it - not in the sense of a scientific study. Her clients and previous speaking engagements include the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tahirih Justice Center, Park Day School, OZY Media, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and others.If this book were published prior to the Black Lives Matter movement's founding rather than in 2020, I might have let that slide. My hope is that this thought process continues to push society to think outside the box - less Dustin Hoffman's "Rain Man" or even Jim Parsons' Sheldon and more nuanced (and not necessarily male). I loved that Nerenberg explained all of the ways the brain functions out of the norm and how to deal with this.