Strong Female Character,New

Strong Female Character,New

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Witty, dry, and gimleteyed, this is a necessary corrective in a world where Autistic women are all either written off as quiet and docile, or erased entirely. Devon Price, Ph.D., author of Unmasking AutismScottish comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she'd had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. In this frank and surreal memoir, she delivers a sharp and often hilarious portrait of neurodivergence and living unmasked.Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award A Harpers Bazaar Best Book of the YearAfter reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had itautism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her inability to pick up on social cuesand she told her doctor as much. But it took until she was thirtyfour for her to get diagnosed.Strong Female Character is about the years in between, and the unique combination of sexism and ableism that so often prevents autistic women from getting diagnosed until adulthood. Coming from a workingclass Scottish Catholic family, Fern wasnt exactly poised to receive an openminded acceptance of her neurodivergence. With the piercing clarity and wit that has put her at the top of the British comedy scene, she now reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when neither her parents nor school knew what to do with her.In a memoir as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Fern leaves no stone unturned while detailing her futile attempts at employment, her increasingly destructive coping mechanisms, and the meltdowns that left her mind (and apartment) in ruins. Her chaotic, nonlinear journeyfrom stripping to getting arrested to finding a lifeline in comedy to her breakout appearance on the Taskmaster TV show as her full, unmasked selfis both a remarkable comingofage tale and a dark but poignant tribute to life at the intersection of womanhood and neurodiversity.Strong Female Character is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.

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