“It will provide valuable guidance for the professionals who support these girls and women and it will offer women with autism a guiding light in interpreting and understanding their own life experiences through the experiences of others.”įlo read this book soon after she discovered that she was autistic and found it enormously helpful in understanding how her own experiences fitted in with those of other autistic women, backed up with academic research.
“Sarah Hendrickx has collected academic research and personal stories about girls and women on the autism spectrum to present a picture of their profile, behaviour, feelings and perceptions at each stage of their lives.” Sarah Hendrickx: Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015, Jessica Kingsley Publishers) Health and wellbeing is covered in chapters on Anxiety, Sensory Worlds, Emotional Regulation, General Health, Co-Occurring Conditions and Mental Wellness and Autism HWB contributor Becca Lory provides a chapter on Self-Care.
This book covers a fantastic range of advice based on hard-earned experience. We always find it helpful to read first hand accounts of other autistic adults. Contributors cover issues including growing up, identity, diversity, parenting, independance, and self-care amongst many others.” “Each writer offers their personal guidance on significant issues that particularly affect women, as well as those that are more general to autism. “Barb Cook and 14 other Spectrum Women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful, and supportive insights from their personal experiences for fellow autistic women.” Barb Cook and Dr Michelle Garnett: Spectrum Women (2018, Jessica Kingsley Publishers) A full chapter is dedicated to anxiety, which makes essential reading not just for autistic people but anyone in an autistic person’s life. This is a fantastically helpful book, it is written sensitively, kindly, and with with great understanding of how challenges such as unhelpful sensory environments, masking, exhaustion and a lack of self-understanding can disrupt our wellbeing. Autism and Asperger Syndrome in adults is written for autistic children, teenagers and adults, their families and friends, and all professionals interested in autism.” “Dr Luke Beardon examines aspects of adult life, including further and higher education, employment, dating and parenthood, and what they mean for autistic people. Dr Luke Beardon: Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults (2017, Sheldon Press)
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