Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Forfatteren er selv autistisk og frem for at prøve at diagnostisere disse kvinder så fortæller hun om deres liv og oplevelser og hvordan hun tolker det gennem en autistisk linse. The book wouldn't have been something I'd pick up if I'd have known that it would have a text bookish feel to it, but I'm glad I did kind of pick it up. The letter to Virginia Woolf explores internalized ableism and the depiction of outcast femme characters in literature with examples pulled from Woolf’s biographical writings and Mrs.

This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by ‘weird sisters’ everywhere. By ‘Autism mums’ I mean non-autistic mothers of autistic children, many of which are wonderful (thankfully mine included), but they (‘autism parents’, not just the mums of course) often overshadow autistic voices, attempting to speak for us instead. As a whole the discussion on motherhood was wonderful, however some discomfort arose when Autism mums became centralised. I've only known I'm autistic for about a year, and I'm really starting to dig into some deeper ideas about how people relate to autism and how we fit into this world that doesn't make space for us.In her letters, the author reveals insights into her own experiences that at times made for difficult reading (often very relatable), but with an ultimately empowering message. If you don't register someone as a fellow human being, you are less inclined to treat them like one. It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it.

Jeg synes det var hårdt at blive mindet om alle de små “double takes” og folk misbilligende blikke om træder ved siden af. Det var en super interessant vinkel at tage at det den manglende villighed til efterleve feminitet på samme måde som neurotypiske der gør folk utilpasse. A truly insightful book, I felt seen in many pages and encouraged to self reflect - but with kindness rather than cruelty as we are so often taught. Corvus Atlantic’s commercial fiction list which includes women’s, historical, romance, sci-fi, crime and thriller.Found this hard to get into at first just because of the style it’s written (each chapter is a letter from the author to another woman of history with autism) but once I did it was great.

Just that I personally felt their perspective/experience held more space than perhaps appropriate on those pages. The essential anger of activism combined with the character limits of Twitter et al, can render the medium a blunt tool. Topics of interest: Autistic mothers, letters to people in history, the children in Asperger's wards, the uncanny, and what it feels like to exist in between worlds.Whilst I enjoyed the content, I did feel it jarred every time Limburg brought the letter back to the subject of the recipient, and the formatting just didn’t flow as nicely together as Limburg perhaps intended. My one complaint about this phenomenal book is that while it deals exclusively with the intersection of gender and neurodivergence, Limburg at no point acknowledges that many non-binary people, especially those who were assigned female, as well as trans men, will be able to identify strongly with the experiences being ascribed to women here, despite not being women themselves. Det er 4 kvinder som forfatteren identificerer som “werid sisters” som blev udstød pga der unormale opførsel.

i had never properly examined autistic womanhood until i saw spelled out in many examples and experiences ways autistic women appear to defy and 'fail', in the eyes of the patriarchy, to be women. The bleeding edge of autistic advocacy seems to be on social media and what the medium often lacks is nuance. For someone on the outside (but not entirely), I am - and others, too, I’m sure - often thirsty for more understanding and insight than a Twitter post can provide. I love the premise of this book, I love the letters from Limburg that make these historical women current and therefore bringing their differences and ‘weird’-ness into the modern day where perhaps they would have been better understood.Acceptance isn't about being celebrated: it's about being unremarked and unremarkable, the opposite of uncanny. I imagine this book would have been a thousand times more compelling if it was a memoir of the author's experience as a late-diagnosed autistic Jewish mother. Limburg explores autism, parenting, feminism, disability rights and society’s relationship with difference through four letters to her “weird sisters” from history.