I have difficulties admitting I couldn't do something, especially to authority figures, I don't look forward to telling her I didn't do my "homework". I dont know that I believe all the holistic stuff, but I think this book should be required reading for woman and girls who have been diagnosed with AS. She also suggested "Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from my Life with Autism" by Temple Grandin (which irked me at first because I don't think in pictures and she knows it), but I'm finding it infinitely more tolerable and interesting, even if I haven't found it particularly relatable so far. What should I tell my psychiatrist next time? "I'm sorry, I really tried but the book sounds bogus" doesn't sit well with me. It will also be of interest to partners and loved ones of Aspergirls, and anybody interested either professionally or academically in Asperger's Syndrome. I got bored shortly after the first chapter, so I started skipping ahead and landed on a seemingly inconclusive chapter on the relation between IBS and autism (?) and on another that seems to confuse gender roles with gender identity. This book will be essential reading for females of any age diagnosed with AS, and those who think they might be on the spectrum. Maybe I'm not the target audience for this book (I'm 24), or maybe I can't get over the sloppy translation, but I simply cannot go forward. I've tried going into it with an open mind, but I can't get over how childish it seems to be, and I find the constant use of "aspergirls" instead of "girls with Aspergers" incredibly grating and patronizing. My psychiatrist recommended "Aspergirls" to me and I just can't read it.
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