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“People with Asperger’s or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on.”
― Odd Girl Out: A powerful memoir of life as an autistic woman in a neurotypical world
― Odd Girl Out: A powerful memoir of life as an autistic woman in a neurotypical world
“Girls can be more bitchy and mean, and Aspie girls don’t play that game. They are loyal, trustworthy, and kind. They just don’t do bitchiness, and they find it very hard to understand why girls would actually enjoy being so cruel to each other and so destructive.”
― Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
― Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
“In an effort to add detail to my blueprint for life, I have begun contacting a number of autism experts, including Professor Tony Attwood, author of The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome. He stressed that with autism the core features are generally the same for boys and girls, men and women. There are, however, key differences. He told me, “One is how girls react to being different. The other is the different expectations in society for girls. “In terms of how girls react, I think one of the common ways is to observe, analyze, and imitate and create a mask, which delays diagnosis for decades until the wheels fall off.”
― Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
― Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
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