Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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The way Limburg then turns these moments into a chance for connection with the woman her letter is addressed to, and into something poignant about the changes needed in society to support people going through similar issues around childbirth, is genuinely powerful on several occasions. There is so much to love about this book, particularly for anybody already interested in any of the subject matters explored. 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. The author did an awesome job explaining how it feels to have autism rather than explaining what autism is. I wasn't expecting the book to be in that format, thought it would be like a sort of memoir type that reads like a story.

That isn’t to say that I don’t think these parents should be praised for their efforts or provided sympathy when they’re struggling. Det faktum er at det breve gør at der bliver skrevet til dem i stedet for om dem, hvilket er forfriskende. Following a midlife Autism diagnosis, Limburg sets out to find “other women who had been misunderstood in their time. Limburg explores autism, parenting, feminism, disability rights and society’s relationship with difference through four letters to her “weird sisters” from history. 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.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. There are things in the world that need fixing, and you cannot fix them without pointing out that they are broken; the fact that both the pointing out and the fixing makes comfortable people less comfortable is no reason not to do what you know to be right.

I found some things interesting, like the author's own experiences at school, with the speech therapist, and seeing an educational psychologist. That’s as good a definition of autism as I’ve ever read, and reminds me of the value of the unclassified routes down which our autistic brains so often travel. these brave women struggled on the page, as they tried to negotiate between the felt pressure of their own perceptions and experiences and the established forms of language which resisted their attempts to express them.It was a relief to follow Limberg as she patiently and delicately unfolded and put on display so many elements of autistic personhood and experience.

In this book Limburg explores women that have been similarly marked ‘outsiders’ through history, and through writing personal letters from she to them, humanises their differences and compassionately explores what made them ‘weird’. 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. Being around me doesn't always feel like being around a fellow human being, and that discomfort rarely brings out the best in people. 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.Yes, we do have to say so every time, because every time we see another woman's body objectified, it is by implication an attack on our personhood, and when we are attacked in this way, we have every right to re-assert that personhood by refusing that objectification. Hun reflekterer også hvorfor den måde vi snakker om folk med intellektuelle handicap på er skadelige, især konceptet mental alder. The bleeding edge of autistic advocacy seems to be on social media and what the medium often lacks is nuance. 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.

CW // the holocaust, eugenics, state-sanctioned murder of disabled people, suicide, bullying, miscarriage, pregnancy (Please feel free to DM me for more specifics! Acceptance isn't about being celebrated: it's about being unremarked and unremarkable, the opposite of uncanny. 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.The essential anger of activism combined with the character limits of Twitter et al, can render the medium a blunt tool. 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 book is a must read for all women who have or suspect they have autism, parents of girls with autism, partners, friends or relatives of girls and women with autism.