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eBook: How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe

An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism.

‘A passionate, hugely articulate argument for the acceptance of difference. Every teacher, every parent, every person should read this book.' Meg Rosoff

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Myriad Editions (19 September 2019)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-912408-32-0
Size: 111mm x 178mm

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Poe’s voice is confident, moving and often funny, as she reveals to us a very personal account of autism, mental illness, gender and sexual identity. As we follow Charlotte’s journey through school and college, we become as awestruck by her extraordinary passion for life as by the enormous privations that she must undergo to live it. From food and fandom, to body modification and comic conventions, Charlotte’s experiences through the torments of schooldays and young adulthood leave us with a riot of conflicting emotions: horror, empathy, despair, laugh-out-loud amusement and, most of all, respect. For Charlotte, autism is a fundamental aspect of her identity and art. She addresses her reader in a voice that is direct, sharply clever and ironic. She witnesses her own behaviour with a wry humour as she sympathises with those who care for her, yet all the while challenging the neurotypical narratives of autism as something to be ‘fixed’. ‘I wanted to show the side of autism that you don’t find in books and on Facebook. My story is about survival, fear and, finally, hope. There will be parts that make you want to cover your eyes, but I beg you to read on, because if I can change just one person’s perceptions, if I can help one person with autism feel like they’re less alone, then this will all be worth it.’ This is an exuberant, inspiring, life-changing insight into autism from a viewpoint almost entirely missing from public discussion.
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SKU ZBAUTI
ISBN 9781912408337
Manufacturer Myriad
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