The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

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It’s, it’s massive, and everybody deserves to feel like they belong on this earth, because that’s what we’re talking about, you know, when you look at the high levels of self harm, and the high suicide rates amongst autistic people, you realize that we have this fundamental problem with belonging, and that we deserve not to have a fundamental problem with belonging, we deserve to belong. I’m a late diagnosed AuDHD’er and I’ve always said the electricity of everything was hard to handle. In anticipation of her 38th birthday, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. As someone who can identify with some of the struggles in the audio drama I found it incredible to listen to. Feeling she was different, even as a child, she “watched, carefully, the way that other people behaved, and mimicked it precisely.

And it turned out that I was loved and valued for me all along, and not for the pretend person I was because he’s the person that seen the real me the most, you can’t mask all the time. Yeah, I mean, you throughout the book, you, first of all, you know, just to take a step back, the way you structured the book is such a pleasure to read, because you do really weave so beautifully. We bear witness to a new understanding that finally allows her to be different rather than simply awkward, arrogant or unfeeling. Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun, this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace within our own unquiet minds.Katherine often receives messages from people who have received an autism diagnosis and are struggling with what that means, or who think they might be autistic and want more information and reassurance. As well as being a very raw, truthful portrayal of personal ordeal, it’s also very wry; splicing together funny, and terribly awkward encounters with a very real and consuming desire to walk free and alone.

And, you know, I bought into the stuff about, you know, hardly any girls or women or autistic, you know, all of the things that we used to be taught, and so that moment when I heard an autistic woman speak for herself, I knew right away. My son is on the spectrum, a recent diagnosis, as we learn more about ASD as a family I’ve been making a lot of comparisons between him and myself. Age thirty-eight and feeling every day of it, Katherine May sets out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. I realize, as I’m coming out of my reboot, I’m shouting ‘fuck off leave me alone’ at H… who’s heartily sick of my shit these days. When you’re parenting a neurodivergent child, you don’t get to just follow the kind of set pattern that everyone else is following you know, you have to think everything through and you have to learn different skills and different ways to do things.The book vividly (and humorously) describes battles in a world where Katherine often feels off kilter. Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers.