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Michal Edelsburg

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Michal Edelsburg is an author and keynote speaker on relationships, family, motherhood, and the extraordinary female consciousness.
She is a former family law expert and licensed arbitrator.
When she was fifty-seven, Michal was diagnosed with autism—a formative experience that eventually led to her debut book, Octopus Mimicus.

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Octopus Mimicus: A Literary Memoir of Love, Autism, and a Different Mind

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The Bell Jar captures a specific kind of inner split: outward competence, inward suffocation. Plath refuses sentimentality—she doesn’t ask for empathy, and she doesn’t soften the experience. The insight here is earned, not offered as comfort. What st ...more
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“I look like you. Sound like you. Move like you.
Speak your language. But I’m not like you. I never was.”
― Michal Edelsburg, Octopus Mimicus: A Literary Memoir of Love, Autism, and a Different Mind

tags: autism, belonging, difference, masking, memoir, neurodivergence, tags-identity, women

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