Our Autistic Lives
Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+
$46.20
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2020
Summary
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.
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 au…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785925603 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1785925601 |
| Author: | Alex Ratcliffe |
| Publisher: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Imprint: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 138mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Uniquely covering a lifespan and intersecting a range of communities and cultures; This book adds to the growing voice of an enormously diverse population of people who’ve spent a lifetime suppressing who they are, in order to fit into a world that fears difference. – Kieran Rose, theautisticadvocate.comToo often, we forget that roughly 75% of Autistic people are adults. Our Autistic Lives is invaluable because it offers intimate insights from Autistic adults in every decade of life, to their seventies and beyond. Ratcliffe’s book is crucial reading for understanding autism across the lifespan. – Maxfield Sparrow, author of The ABCs of Autism Acceptance and No You Don’t: Essays from an Unstrange Mind
About The Author
Alex Ratcliffe
Alex Ratcliffe has worked within the field of autism for over 12 years. This includes working at a senior level in special educational needs and as an assessor for an autism course. She has extensive writing, researching and interviewing experience. She identifies as being autistic (self diagnosed).
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