Untypical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it

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The unforgivable bit for me (which may or may not be so important to a general readership) is where he gets into PDA territory.

Pete Wharmby is an ex-English teacher who has immersed himself in the world of autism advocacy since his diagnosis in 2017. It covers so much - communication and social interaction, eye contact, masking, meltdowns, anxiety, depression, suicide, the nightmarish reality of school/college leading into the high levels of unemployment and means to make a decent living to allow more independence, to coping with trying to make a path through a foggy world not built to allow autistic people a clear way through, battling on day by day, week by week, month by month and so on. Reading this book will only enrich your life, mind and empathy towards others and in this day and age it's a must read for all neurotypical people. I've worked with SEN children in a school setting for over 10 years, and I've recently changed jobs to work as a 1:1 with some autistic children in a different setting.

Powszechna wiedza o autyzmie jest jednak obciachowo słaba, bo zwykło się w opinii publicznej powoływać na to, co ukazano w filmach „Rain Man”, czy „Teorii wielkiego podrywu”, w której Sheldon Cooper był przecież uroczo zabawny. It goes without saying that every autistic person is going to see things differently, but it would have been nice to hear some perspectives which were different on the work or socialising chapters for example, especially as the author has included many anecdotes from Twitter for other parts of the book. This had lots of good information and was coming from a good place, plus I also appreciated that it was a UK autism book.

For instance, Wharmby acknowledges the increased risk that Black people face from the police, which made me think about how this is a deliberate effect of an inherently ableist and racist institution designed to discipline disabled and racialised people. My first difficulty is because I am keenly aware of the existence in the world and especially around autism of those who enjoy, or are compelled to take, contrarian and hypercritical positions, perhaps because any mistakes or disagreements overshadow anything positive, perhaps because of their particular difficulties in generalising from another's experience.Tips include being aware of masking, reserving judgement, and understanding that “communication differences can have drastic outcomes”. really good, pretty detailed introduction to what it's like to be autistic - definitely very much from the author's specific perspective but he reflects on that quite a bit and signposts to resources about more marginalised (e. After all, once you know that a student is doodling because it genuinely helps them to concentrate, why would you have a problem with their page of little drawings?