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Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

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Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

Von: Sara Gibbs
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'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism would be to cure me of myself.'

During the first thirty years of her life, comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a cry baby, a scaredy cat, a spoiled brat, a weirdo, a show off - but more than anything else, she'd been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her behaviour, her meltdowns or her intense emotions. She felt like everyone else knew a social secret that she hadn't been let in on; as if life was a party she hadn't been invited to. Why was everything so damn hard? Little did Sara know that, at the age of thirty, she would be given one more label that would change her life's trajectory forever. That one day, sitting next to her husband in a clinical psychologist's office, she would learn that she had never been a drama queen, or a weirdo, or a cry baby, but she had always been autistic.

Drama Queen is both a tour inside one autistic brain and a declaration that a diagnosis on the spectrum, with the right support, accommodations and understanding, doesn't have to be a barrier to life full of love, laughter and success. It is the story of one woman trying to fit into a world that has often tried to reject her and, most importantly, it's about a life of labels, and the joy of ripping them off one by one.

(P)2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2021 Sara Gibbs Beziehungen Gesundheit von Kindern
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A moving read.
A touching and funny memoir.
Both funny and fascinating in equal measure.
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I just wanted to thank the author for the book! She has written her story with so much humour and honesty. It is the first book I have read where someone admitted having a depression after diagnosis. It helped a lot taking away the pressure of having to accept being autistic in the very first place. The book gives the courage to take as much time as needed to process this discovery and don't let youself being pushed to things you don't feel just yet. Because you can accept it in your own way and time and then truly be yourself.

Absolutely helpful when you struggle with being autistic as a woman

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