Insightful and educational

Amazing book. It gives invaluable insight in how life on spectrum feels for the author. I found to be very educational and interesting.

Narration was good, but I found it odd that narrator decided to give different voices and accents to quotes from scientific literature or actual interviews with professionals. To me it felt as though narrator was mocking them.

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A wonderful insight into one woman's neurodiversity

She is honest and open. Formsomeone undergoing the assessment for autism herself, there have been things that resonate and things that very much don't. as they say, when you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.
This book is very well written, so easy to listen to and reassuring for those that are still working in identifying their neurodiversity.
Highly recommended.

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Fascinating and Important

Thank you for an honest look at your own experience. It has made me cry, widen my eyes in recognition and feel immense relief. This will be so helpful to everyone, regardless of background. Brilliant.

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A well narrated personal account of late diagnosed autism

I thought this was an insightful and interesting account of female autism. While everyone is different, there will be much of Laura’s story that will resonate.

I enjoyed the narration - beautiful pronunciation and variation in tone with different people voices differently.

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sooo comforting

as a self diagnosed 40 year old waiting for my assessment, all I kept saying was" that's like me " I loved every word best book I have listened to during my current intense interest lol of autism. thank you it has helped me very much xx

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Love the book, hate the accents and voices

Why does the narrator use different voices and accents? It annoyed me so much.

I loved the story, and it offers a perspective of the life of an autistic woman.

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wonderful. made me feel understood

if you're autistic, know someone who is our are just interested in broadening your understanding of neurodivergent minds, this book is perfect. I absolutely loved it. it's so human and relatable. highly recommend. I'll miss listening to it.

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Fascinating and warm.

A great life affirming story of the importance of understanding and accepting yourself, whatever your neurology.

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Wow

I devoured this book in two sittings. It was a hard listen, not because of the story but because I felt like i could have been written about me. So much resonated. I cried many fat shuddering tears, some moments felt like being punched in the stomach with awareness. People often bandy the phrase “life changing book” around but in this case, and for me, it felt like a watershed listen.

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good and relatable to life as an autistic person

really enjoyed this - it resonated a lot with my experiences as an autistic person and what I went through when I was diagnosed.

the naration is easy to listen to, the intonation suggests to me the narator is not autistic; this would probably liven it up a bit for a non autistic audience - but for me as an autistic person it felt slightly inauthentic in terms of how and when different elements of intonation were applied to express emotions when the author wasn't likely to express them in that way, which unbalanced it a bit for me but I think it would appeal to a neurotypical listener.

in terms of understanding the experience of living 40+ years as an undiagnosed autistic person and being unaware of why so many things in life are so hard - the book does an excellent job. the author explains the transition through the assessment process and her own transition from trying to hide the autism to accepting who she is.

I'm not so keen on the reliance of the psychologist Tony Attwood; a lot of his work (and perspectives about autism) is out of date and in professional spaces he frequently mocks autistic people to make points about "autistic deficits" but this is somewhat toned down in the book by the way it read and by not having him laughing repeated.

overall a great book for anyone exploring what it might like for themselves or a loved one as they transition through a diagnstic process and move on with their life into a space of self acceptance and undoing the life time of damage that is common for autistic people.

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