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If you're a autistic woman or girl, or suspect you might be autistic, or just a bit weird. I highly recommend reading Fern Brady's Strong Female Character.
Edit: 62 pages on day one, after not having been reading books with my eyes for quite a while, and not wanting to stop good. And I definitely think it's covering some perspectives of autism that not a lot of people talk about as much.
I also had no idea how current this subject was, because I'm on vacation and reading this book. 馃槄
I'm going to continue talking about this book, hopefully without spoilers.
While it's easy for me to go like "oh it wasn't this bad for me", I still recognize myself in things she able to put words on. Experiences that I knew felt off for me for some reasons growing up, but I never quite knew why.
Yes, I figured it's because I'm autisitc, and before that adhd. But I wasn't diagnosed with adhd until 33 and didn't suspect autism until after that.
I hate that so many of us autisitc women have to go through experiences like this, and go unseen for the help we need.
While reading today it's covering years of getting kicked out of the house by your own parents, and getting blamed for things you didn't do and no one believing you when you insist you didn't do it. Upon which you might as well do the crime, if you're going to do the time anyways. Why take the punishment for something you didn't do.
We can't be the only ones. And damn.
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