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Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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Det er 4 kvinder som forfatteren identificerer som “werid sisters” som blev udstød pga der unormale opførsel. The book touches upon eugenics, psychodynamics, nazism, mum-shaming, being weird and different, social isolation, and of course, not dressing well.

through letters to women considered 'weird' (limburg arguing who may in fact have autistic traits making them considered 'weird') she explores her own autistic experience and experience of womanhood, and the intersection of ableism and sexism, and therefore disability rights and feminism, throughout history. This notion, that the mother-baby dyad, standing apart from all others, is an ideal template for child-rearing, is a collective delusion quite specific to our culture in the Global North, and it would be better for everyone if we collectively snapped out of it. Limberg’s letter to Katharina Kepler, a 16th century woman accused of witchcraft was also, at times, a difficult read. 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.Anyway I found it hard to read, but that's not to say it wasn't good, because it certainly wasn't bad. I did feel the letter writing aspect lost it’s way a little, each letter started strongly, but then moved into a tangent that was more focussed on Limburg than on the recipient of the letter. This book is a must read for all women who have or suspect they have autism, parents of girls with autism, partners, friends or relatives of girls and women with autism. I’ve always felt…well, a bit weird, and this book has also granted me some insight of more personal relevance that I will need to dwell on. 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.

I love the way this books looks at autism and feminism through a myriad of ways; literary and media analysis, history, current society, politics, different cultural backgrounds, psychological, physiological and anecdotal and considers both the personal and societal impact these things have on the lives of autistic people. I enjoyed the bits with the author's experiences, which is what I expected when picking this book up. The author did an awesome job explaining how it feels to have autism rather than explaining what autism is. 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.I wasn't expecting the book to be in that format, thought it would be like a sort of memoir type that reads like a story. Jeg vil helt klart anbefale denne bog til enhver som gerne vil vide mere om autisme fra indeperspektiv, og som gerne vil reflektere over hvad det vil sige at vokse op som autist og pige i vores samfund. My personal favourites were the letter to Virginia Woolf, Adelheid Bloch, and Katharina Kepler - although every letter is exceptional. Even as Limburg refers to the work of non-binary activists within the text, she fails to acknowledge her non-binary and trans male siblings who have lived a lot of the same formative experiences as cis women. Her letter to Frau V, the (possibly autistic) mother to Fritz, one of Hans Asperger’s autistic patients, reaches far into the culture of motherhood over the past decades and I found it very affecting.

Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. That sentence you just read—it is not only part of a text, but also part of you, and part of the person who wrote it, all at the same time. As a mother to an autistic son, it was painful to read - even more so because I know that, despite my best efforts and knowing my son as well I do, there is still so much I don’t understand. 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. 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.For selvom forfatteren ikke selv er intellektuelt handicappede så giver hun gennem hele bogen henvisninger til yderlig læsning. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. That isn’t to say that I don’t think these parents should be praised for their efforts or provided sympathy when they’re struggling. As a whole the discussion on motherhood was wonderful, however some discomfort arose when Autism mums became centralised.

limburg's book approached intersectionality and privilege in autism (especially in context of masking to think of one example) with such grace and thought, which was incredibly refreshing and powerful to read. 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.The themes in this book are of interest to me, particularly the exploration of Limburg’s own experience with autism, as, like so many other things in life, we are still only beginning to understand from the perspective of female presentation. Once you have been pushed outside the first person plural, anything might be done to you, anything might happen. And, as I've been saying, if you are not a woman or a girl, then you might as well be anything—any manner of kickable monstrosity. 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.

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