For selvom forfatteren ikke selv er intellektuelt handicappede så giver hun gennem hele bogen henvisninger til yderlig læsning. In media (social and otherwise) I find there’s often a focus on sympathy/praise for the parents rather than on the experiences of autistic people.

The book wouldn't have been something I'd pick up if I'd have known that it would have a text bookish feel to it, but I'm glad I did kind of pick it up. For someone on the outside (but not entirely), I am - and others, too, I’m sure - often thirsty for more understanding and insight than a Twitter post can provide.

If you don't register someone as a fellow human being, you are less inclined to treat them like one. I think my less awestruck second read goes to show how much i've learned between now and my first read which is pretty cool. limburg's book approached intersectionality and privilege in autism (especially in context of masking to think of one example) with such grace and thought, which was incredibly refreshing and powerful to read. As a whole the discussion on motherhood was wonderful, however some discomfort arose when Autism mums became centralised. I liked how I was able to learn more about women I know of, such as Virginia Woolf and women who I haven’t and how society treated them.

Once you have been pushed outside the first person plural, anything might be done to you, anything might happen. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Men forfatteren ser også på hendes egen lyst til at separere sig fra specifikke typer af autistiske mennesker, såsom dem der er hjerneskadet eller lignede, hun reflektere over det. The authors experience of her feelings of fear, and guilt that she went through during pregnancy and after birth was really vulnerable.The letter to Virginia Woolf explores internalized ableism and the depiction of outcast femme characters in literature with examples pulled from Woolf’s biographical writings and Mrs. Acceptance isn't about being celebrated: it's about being unremarked and unremarkable, the opposite of uncanny. My one complaint about this phenomenal book is that while it deals exclusively with the intersection of gender and neurodivergence, Limburg at no point acknowledges that many non-binary people, especially those who were assigned female, as well as trans men, will be able to identify strongly with the experiences being ascribed to women here, despite not being women themselves. I was immediately drawn in by the description of how it feels to be a person that triggers the 'uncanny valley' phenomenon in others - I have thought about, read and watched videos on this many times, focusing on why and how it happens - but never once have I come across something that chooses to focus on what it actually feels like to be the person on the receiving end of being registered that way and what it does to you as a person.

Seriously, all six letters covered the main themes and topics associated with womanhood/femininity and neurodivergency/disability (esp.The next chapter went back to a far too meandering and personal narrative, when she was meant to be writing about Adelheid Bloch. And, as I've been saying, if you are not a woman or a girl, then you might as well be anything—any manner of kickable monstrosity. 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. autistic = perseverating on details others discard, as in a poem: the tension between the poetic line and its grammar'.