These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Limberg’s letter to Katharina Kepler, a 16th century woman accused of witchcraft was also, at times, a difficult read. Når disse fortælling og refleksioner kobles sammen med feminisme og handicapaktivsme, så sker der magi.

I found some things interesting, like the author's own experiences at school, with the speech therapist, and seeing an educational psychologist.It also addressed how commonly mothers are blamed for autism in children, which was informative for me to read.

This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by ‘weird sisters’ everywhere. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere.

The author’s reinterpretation of scientists who thought mothers were cold to their autistic sons, as unobservant males who couldn’t see mothers who were well-attuned to their sons’ strong preference for increased physical distance and decreased conversation, was eye-opening. If you have any level of interest in this subject, you will find this book honest and enlightening and you will more than likely want to read more. Diagnosed with autism in midlife, Joanne Limburg finally felt she could make sense of what marked her as an outsider. For the longest time, I have felt disappointed at the lack of writing that directly addresses autism and feminism in an in depth way, despite it so desperately being needed but this book filled that void for me and did an incredible job at it. The author relates to the four women and finds common ground with them, she empathises and apologises for the wrongs that these women experienced.

The book touches upon eugenics, psychodynamics, nazism, mum-shaming, being weird and different, social isolation, and of course, not dressing well. As a whole the discussion on motherhood was wonderful, however some discomfort arose when Autism mums became centralised. How as women we are held to certain expectations of how we act and behave and are constantly reminded and policed on that. CW // the holocaust, eugenics, state-sanctioned murder of disabled people, suicide, bullying, miscarriage, pregnancy (Please feel free to DM me for more specifics! If you don't register someone as a fellow human being, you are less inclined to treat them like one.Even as Limburg refers to the work of non-binary activists within the text, she fails to acknowledge her non-binary and trans male siblings who have lived a lot of the same formative experiences as cis women. Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations. I love the way this books looks at autism and feminism through a myriad of ways; literary and media analysis, history, current society, politics, different cultural backgrounds, psychological, physiological and anecdotal and considers both the personal and societal impact these things have on the lives of autistic people. As part of this, Limburg weaves in her own stories and experiences, and, in doing so, makes an often beautiful and heartbreaking plea for understanding and action.

This was particularly enlightening, and I shall carry this forward as I continue to unpick the mask I built in my 25 years pre diagnosis. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. None of us could ever be as pretty and nice and odourless inside and out as good girls and nice women are supposed to be, as we are supposed to be by definition.For selvom forfatteren ikke selv er intellektuelt handicappede så giver hun gennem hele bogen henvisninger til yderlig læsning. autistic women failing at 'womanhood' was an incredible concept; i'd heard about how many autistic people consider their neurotype inherently entangled with their sense of gender and also knew that many autistics consider themselves gender nonconforming. Let's get my qualms out of the way first, because there is one major issue with this book that I kept waiting to be addressed: if you are writing a book about autistic people who are not cis men, I find it nearly implausible not to include any gender expansiveness (non-binary people, trans men, etc. The ways in which the perils of the medical systems impact autistic women also often align with those of other marginalized identities.