ASPERGIRLS: EMPOWERING FEMALES WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME FREE DOWNLOAD Rudy Simone | 240 pages | 15 Jun 2010 | JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS | 9781849058261 | English | London, United Kingdom Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome Autistic art Autism spectrum disorders in the media Fictional characters Films about autism Circle of Friends Neurodiversity Medical model of autism Societal and cultural aspects of autism. Return to Book Page. My daughter is a high functioning autistic girl, and has many challenges that differ from AS. Non-fiction book by American author Rudy Simone. I'm not kidding. Nothing is taboo. Little sections at the end of the chapters. However, about halfway through it seems like the author stopped taking in as many perspectives, or something, because what she Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome talking about stopped being relevant to me. If you want to give this a try, try getting it either reallllyyyy cheaply secondhand or just borrow it from the library. But not everyone is autistic. Consistently uses we in place of I Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome drove me mad with hypocritical statements. Dec 17, Ray rated it really liked Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome. Simone tackled a sensitive, not very known but very important topic in this book which is Asperger Syndrome. Jan 13, Sara rated it liked it. She seems to say that all aspergirls have these problems, but you don't have to have those problems to be an asperrgirl. View all 19 comments. I put it on my daughter's kindle also so she can read it when she is interested. If you are a parent considering giving this This book is about Rudy Simone's life experience as an "Aspergirl. List of Female Asperger Syndrome Traits. Archived from the original on January 26, In Chapter 19, Stomach Issues and Autism, she wrote, "Most of the world's top autism researchers and doctors now believe Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome Including the reflections of over thirty-five women diagnosed as on the spectrum, as well as some partners and parents, Rudy identifies recurring struggles and areas where Aspergirls need validation, Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome and advice. She states that people with AS should embrace their unique strengths and then goes on to suggest that autism is caused by the mythical "leaky gut" and that symptoms can be mitigated by taking certain supplements. To be quite frank, up until a few weeks ago, I had no idea such a thing even existed, but when I did I immediately started Aspergirls, and it really helped me understand the nature of Asperger, how it can manifest and how to Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome with people who have it. Just keep in mind that it is a very subjective book based very much on the personal experiences of the author. Not everything can be blamed on the spectrum. While the possibility for In general, I thought this was a great book. Another major problem for me, is how she lets the reader think that most Aspergirls have a major passion, are highly intelligent, and love technology. Contents: Foreword by Liane Holliday Willey. I also would've liked to read more on being queer, since research has shown that heterosexuality isn't as common within the ASD community as she seems to imply. Current Catalogue. I have nothing negative to say about it except that it partly makes the assumption that society is not responsible for its share of acceptance. Liane Holliday Willey is a doctor of education, a writer and a researcher who specializes in the fields of psycholinguistics and learning style differences. Hazel Ratfliffe, writing for Learning Disability Todaysaid, "It is a beautiful intelligent, powerful book and it should be read by everyone. I usually turn out to be right. This feels disingenuous, a calculated move to gather in those feeling lik This book embodies a disturbing paradox, pointed out to me by someone close to this topic personally: on the one hand, Simone appropriates a clinical label which is now part of Autism Spectrum Disorder, far less "cool" than Asperger's BTW to give weight to her creation of a new identity, "Aspergirl'; yet on the other hand she essentially dismisses the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology as backwards and ineffective. In general, I thought this was a great book. Error rating book. The effects of her Asperger's were so strong that "as puberty kicked in, I went through bouts of mutism which could last hours or even a whole day. Foreword Magazine. So I'm fairly certain I have Aspergers autism spectrum disorderalthough I haven't gotten the official testing done yet. Mar 15, Michelle rated it liked it. Autism spectrum High-functioning autism Classic autism Asperger syndrome Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified Childhood disintegrative disorder Rett syndrome. Good basic information for those new to Asperger's, esp. I have worked with 0, yes I wrote 0, girls with Asperger's in my 15 years of working with special needs and high risk populations!! Friendships and Socializing Autism outline spectrum. The chapters are short and give good tips to woman and girls with AS and the people closest to them. I would recommend this book to teen and adult readers, but there's not much that can help a young child. There were also a couple of passages that particularly disturbed me because they seemed to conflate the author's experience with the experience of all women with Asperger's, although I'm still not sure how much of this is the intrinsic content of the passages and how much of it is what I brought to it. Also not everybody wants a husband. This, despite that fact that it Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome very common even more common than depression, I believe in this group. 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