Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity

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You also have every sound and smell and the longer you hear or smell something, the more intense it becomes until you either have a meltdown or shutdown. Then, he goes into what masking can look like, how we might decide to unmask, and ending with what we need to do as a society to make it a safe place for people to live unmasked. To unmask is to lay bare a proud face of noncompliance, to refuse to buckle under the weight of neurotypical demands. Being closeted doesn’t make it so you have to drop out of college because you’re in so much pain all the time you can’t keep up. I've looked a lot into autism over the years - especially the experiences of those diagnosed as an adult.

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But I will say that the exercises in this book are perfectly apt for me and anyone like me -- which is a point I want to drive home here, that anything that can help neurodivergent individuals is ALSO SOMETHING THAT CAN BE USEFUL to neurotypicals (*also* I very much look forward to Dr.He really challenges you to think about why we have these preconceptions about what autism looks like and how autism shows up in other demographics.

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For example, autism in women and girls often does not fit the stereotypical description of autism that was based on men and boys.He lives in Chicago, where he serves as an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

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As an adult with Spina Bifida, a birth defect often associated Autism, and someone who works in the field of Autism, I have often found myself doing exactly what Dr.Autism is diagnosed because these behaviours cause daily interference, and autistics would still be disabled, regardless of society. Maybe it is just the area I live in North Carolina, USA, but Autism test is under mental health testing (so health insurance covers it with just a normal co-pay). I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the way the medical and social models of disability were presented, the explanation felt a bit overgeneralized to me and I didn’t feel like the medical model was described or critiqued entirely accurately. His entire argument for defunding the police and abolishing prisons is that they’re racially unjust institutions, which sure, but talk about that in a book on race, not a book on autism.

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You know that if you show your discomfort with eye contact, people will find you untrustworthy and treat you very differently," he says. It is less about the personal integration of an autism diagnosis (though there is that), and more extended discussions and pronouncements on public policy related to disability, LGBTQ+ matters, social justice, and so forth.Further, while the documentation is *near* normal at about 20% of the overall text, it is still on the low side, particularly relative to actively ignoring such a large part of the Autism Experience.