If you want some neurodivergent and neuro-positive book recommendations, here are my favorites, ranging from fiction, to sensory advice, to autobiographies, to ways to dissolve internalized ableism.

You can find all of them at: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/book-recommendations/

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When I finally learned the words, “Autism,” and “neurotype,” I finally realized I had kids that were NT. I mean, I always saw the signs, before I learned about neurotypes, but like everybody else who doesn’t know about them, I didn’t know how much was Nature and how much was Nurture, and I was loud and rude about, “normal people,” generally, but I never gave them any trouble about it personally, I just gently tried to teach my way - and first, gentle teaching means nothing compared to neurotypes and second, nothing at all to this particular type.
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Fighting a retro sense of
parental shame, maybe that goes both ways too. 😬🤨💜
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OK, nine years, in the tenth year of it.
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They fooled me when they “had to,” lie to me their whole lives, it’s taken me this same nine years to realize I’m nobody to them, they were raised to hate me, they’ve never known anything else. To realize finally that I am completely alone, my kids have always been gone, there is nothing there, and my remaining sibs aren’t really different, I was the fucked up, R-worded little brother that showed up last to ruin their childhood lives.
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All my last resort fantasies for the future are gone, whatever the future holds I’m alone.
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The difference between who I am and who these Allistic idiots think I am is mind boggling, makes me utterly hopeless for this species, it is far too late for them, maybe it has been too late since they came into being.
😢😠
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That is surely not all analysis, and half emotion. I curse them, deserve’s got nothing to do with it, but they will have what they are making.
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You know what. never mind 😠
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trying to say, the kid came back keeping it light, flippant, by me, “Sure, you wanna talk, talk,” none of my drama - so none of my life, and no acknowledging of what they have done with my talk their entire life, ignore it and punish me for it.
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I told them that because they’ve been impossible to speak to, it took me ten years to pass on the plumbing issue and then I signed off, did not respond to the atttempted small talk, which is good because I would use the Dylan line. 😠💜
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We call out, Can I get a witness, we get crickets 😠💜
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I got something stuck in my output buffer, there’s a thing I want to write, the dark conclusions of my divergent mind’s pattern chasing.
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If you’re strange enough to have been following my train of thought, you’ll have seen me arguing with the progress meme, well that sort of leads me to thinking someone needs to somehow pound it into people’s skulls, like I want to lay it all out, here is your future and it is not better than your past, and what will it take for you to stop boasting about your “progress?”
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I know what you mean, and I couldn’t agree more, it is SUPPOSED to be getting better, and it could be - if people didn’t think it was supposed to happen one of two ways: all by itself for no apparent reason, or because we were punished and ordered to be better.
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I’m not going to repeat again what I think is really happening, it’s too sad to say it all at once and folks don’t get it - but that ain’t it.
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Sometimes I want to rave in the voice you see in automatic writing, in the dour tones of an old testament patriarch, and that’s the same urge, if I wrote the long version it would look like mad apocalyptic prophecy : lest ye change your ways and submit to Nature and Reality, ye shall, etc., 😠😈
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Stay thy hand, you fools. 💜
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