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This was helpful from many tangents. I don’t want to use autism as an excuse for my actions but when I am dealing with a world that does not accommodate, it comes up often.
This book gives me some grace on that issue.

I love this book. As an adult diagnosed in my 50s it is rare to find materials that speak directly to me. I wish I knew about it earlier in life.

I didn’t mean to get this book. It was sitting on a shelf at the library and caught my eye.
I relate well as a late diagnosed adult. I would say most info available relates to parents raising an autistic toddler. So, this was very helpful.

The main help this book provides to me is that it is relateable. I am diagnosed at 50 and struggle to get information and medical advice that is not addressed to toddlers and young children.

"…as I care deeply about the subject matter of the work. Once you find something you care about achieving, you must break down every goal into smaller and smaller individual tasks that you can sequence until you have things that you can do in five, ten, and sixty minutes until persuing those goals is no longer challenging at all."

"…I am perhaps unfamiliar with all the moving parts of. Almost always, I find that even the most intimidating tasks are quite easy once I apply myself… I constantly have to be learning new things that both engage my brain and offer new ways to move complicated sets of finances and production values around. It's now a very easy goal to set and manage. I connected my meaning and purpose to my daily persuits…"

"To this day, like many neurotypicals that I talk to, when a goal requires years of ongoing work, I do find myself doing other things instead of the most important or priority tasks. I clean my kitchen when I need to be writing, or organize my tools when I should respond to emails. These look like distractions, but (at least in my case) they help me to build up and ease into the overwhelm of a major task that…"