Our Autistic Lives

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Our Autistic Lives

Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+

Disability: social aspects Psychology of ageing Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability

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Language: English

Published by: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published on: 21st January 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 794 Kb

ISBN: 9781784509538


Overview

This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70s+. These are varied and diverse, spanning different continents, genders, sexualities and ethnicities, yet the author highlights the common themes that unite them and skilfully draws out these threads.

Chapter Structure

Each chapter is based on accounts from one age group and includes accounts from people of that age, giving an insight into the history of autism and signifying how gaining a diagnosis (or not) has changed people's lives over time. The book is about ageing with an autistic mind, and helping the reader find connections between neurotypical and neurodiverse people by acknowledging the challenges we all face in our past, present and futures.

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