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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 How Did I Get to This Place? -- 1 Who Am I? (Let's Start with the Crisis) -- 2 (Why Do You Need a) Diagnosis? -- 3 To Disclose or Not to Disclose -- 4 What Is It 'Like' to Be Autistic? -- Part 2 What Are 'Restricted, Repetitive Patterns'? -- 5 That Smells Painful: Sensory Hypersensitivity -- 6 Oops, Sorry ... Proprioception: The 'Other' Sixth Sense -- 7 5 1 27: Sensory Hypersensitivity Is Exponential -- 8 Bad Habits: To Stim or Not to Stim? -- 9 I Just Need One More: Hobbies, Interests, and Obsessions |
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10 I Always Do It This Way: Habits and Routines -- 11 A Millimetre to the Left: Perfectionism, Expectations, and Boundaries -- 12 There Is No Grey: Morality, Rights, and Wrongs -- 13 Eternal Regrets: Dealing with Mistakes -- Part 3 What Are 'Deficits in Social Communication and Interaction'? -- 14 Shhh, There Are People Out There: Social Interaction -- 15 I Can't Find the Rulebook: (Not) Understanding Social Rules -- 16 Don't Look in My Eyes: Eye Contact and Communication -- 17 Why Is Everyone So Mean? Bullying and Teasing -- 18 Who Are You? Facial Recognition |
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19 Please Go Away: The Need for People-free Time -- 20 Don't Touch My Things: Autism and Object Attachment -- Part 4 Life Stages and Relationships -- 21 A Fish Out of Water: The Dating Game -- 22 Friends, Families, and Feelings -- 23 With Great Challenge Comes Great Reward: Parenthood -- 24 Too Many Feelings: Sympathy, Empathy, and Grief -- Part 5 Other Important Stuff -- 25 Dealing with the Overwhelm: Meltdown, Shutdown, Burnout -- 26 Interoception: Health Care and Self-Care -- 27 Autistic Strengths -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: Sydney Morning Herald article |
| Summary |
From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life: she had a great career, a beautiful home, a caring husband, two loving sons and supportive friends. But from the inside looking out, she was struggling to make sense of her place in the world, constantly feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, and convinced that her challenges with daily life just meant that she had to try harder. In Growing In to Autism, Thom-Jones tells the story of gradually realizing that she was autistic, and that she experienced the world in ways which were markedly different from neurotypical people. This was a profound awakening - throughout her life she had been masking her true self and this effort had come at great physical, mental and emotional cost. Applying her skills as an experienced and expert researcher, Thom-Jones delved into the literature on autism in adults, learning much more than she already knew as a parent of two autistic boys. Part personal, funny, endearing and enlightening memoir, and part rigorous explication of the nature of autism, Growing in to Autism is a book for all people, memorably conveying the need for better understanding and ways of making space for a group of individuals in our society who have so much to offer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 08, 2023) |
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Thom-Jones, Sandra.
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Autistic people -- Australia -- Biography
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Autistic people -- Australia -- Social conditions
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Autistic people -- Conduct of life
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Autistic people -- Life skills guides
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Autism.
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Autism spectrum disorders -- Patients -- Australia
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Autistic Disorder
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
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Autism
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Autistic people
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Australia
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Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Self-help publications
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Life skills guides
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Autobiographies.
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Self-help publications.
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Autobiographies.
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Livres de croissance personnelle.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
052287889X |
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9780522878899 |
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