Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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I did feel the letter writing aspect lost it’s way a little, each letter started strongly, but then moved into a tangent that was more focussed on Limburg than on the recipient of the letter. Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations. Corvus Atlantic’s commercial fiction list which includes women’s, historical, romance, sci-fi, crime and thriller.

Autism) incredibly well and I thought Limburg’s treatment of the more sensitive subjects was extremely compassionate. For all that time, womanhood from the inside, as a way of experiencing and navigating and making sense of the world, was expressed, for the most part, only in unpublished words, in letters and private journals. CW // the holocaust, eugenics, state-sanctioned murder of disabled people, suicide, bullying, miscarriage, pregnancy (Please feel free to DM me for more specifics! Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books.Being around me doesn't always feel like being around a fellow human being, and that discomfort rarely brings out the best in people. 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. I’ve always felt…well, a bit weird, and this book has also granted me some insight of more personal relevance that I will need to dwell on.

If you don't register someone as a fellow human being, you are less inclined to treat them like one.Any girl or woman who suspects herself to be anything other than perfectly pretty, nice and odourless inside and out risks not being a girl or a woman at all. The author relates to the four women and finds common ground with them, she empathises and apologises for the wrongs that these women experienced. 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. I've only known I'm autistic for about a year, and I'm really starting to dig into some deeper ideas about how people relate to autism and how we fit into this world that doesn't make space for us.

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.I was also grateful for the nuance she brought to the topic of “autism mothers” and felt both understood and rightly challenged by her words. I could honestly gush about this book for ages, so I'll stop myself now and just finish by saying that I would recommend this to anybody.