autism – Page 2 – Cannonball Read 17

“Developing self-trust and self-compassion is a whole journey unto itself.”

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

October 20, 2022 by GentleRain 2 Comments

This is a good overview and self-help aligned book for what Devon Price terms as “Masked Autistics.” I am among those and saw a lot of positive press for this book from other Autistic people, so I got it for my birthday and got around to reading it this week. This is a well-written and straight forward text, so it was an easy and enjoyable read. I saw several people were crying reading this because it hit so close to home — I did not […]

Graeme, just go back to IT consulting…

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

The Rosie result by Graeme Simsion

September 23, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Here go the hate reads! I needed to know if Don ever came to the patently obvious realization that he’s autistic, and if Rosie ever cuts herself free from that knot before he finds a way to hang her from it. Mostly, though, I just wanted to see if these books could possibly get worse still and the answer to that question is a resounding yes. And if you’re wondering if spoilers follow, the answer to that question is also yes. SPOILER WARNING! First, there’s The […]

Oh no….

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

September 14, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Oh no. Oh nooo. It’s a series. Those were my exact words upon doing a cursory Google search prior to starting this review. In prepping to tear into The Rosie Project, I learned that there are two follow-ups that I don’t think my morbid curiosity will let me not read. To answer my previous question of if I’m a masochist: yes. Why else would I suffer through multiple seasons of dreadful Dexter and Archer simply because I’d already devoted so many years of my time to the shows? Why […]

#ActuallyAutistic

Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Rebecca Ollerton

August 31, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Years ago I was visiting with a friend from college. During our conversation she looked at me and wondered if I had a lot of air signs in my star chart or if I was perhaps on the autism spectrum. At the time, neither of those things made any sense to me, but I figured that since she was a professional astrologer and the mother of an autistic daughter that she was seeing what she was used to seeing. At the time, my ideas about […]

“The world needs all types of minds.” ― Temple Grandin

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca

August 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Dr. Temple Grandin must have something new coming out, has an important birthday or the fact autism is getting a push again right now, as we have had a review of an adult book about her, and now I have found the picture book, The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin. This is a picture book by Julia Finley Mosca and therefore, is not going to go into extreme detail, and obviously does not go into the controversies around her. […]

“So she’s a mystic autistic?”

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

July 30, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith 5 Comments

That title is the question my fiancee posed to me when I ranted to her about this book. Honestly, I’d say she’s not necessarily wrong. Although Willow is never confirmed to be autistic, probably in large part due to her family situation being so everchanging and her school counselor being an abject failure, she clearly is, and the book seems to just be her, through some voodoo magic, causing drastic shifts in the lives of everybody she comes into contact with. Like she just exists […]

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