I
went to Barns and Noble today with the intent to buy some books on
Autism, adults with Autism and most importantly Females with Autism. I
was only able to find five books that had to do with autism. Two were
written by Temple Grandin that I have already had the pleasure of
reading and three that had to do with adult males with autism. I even
asked someone at the courtesy desk, which involved me making human
interaction, which then made me have to take off my headphones and try
to wait patiently while the woman tried to look up books which were non
existent and then looked at me with sympathy while I rocked back and
forth. So then I ended me up in the parenting section. This infuriated
me to the extreme. I found a whole section about children with autism
(again all had to do with males with autism) one book which was sold as a
guide to Autism and on the back had a note about the author which
talked about how her son had recovered from Autism. Like it was
something that could be cured. I have recently read some awesome and
empowering books on my Kindle about women on the spectrum and I was
hoping to find more books like that that I could physically turn the
page I could not believe that there was not a single one that I could
find! I immediately called my fiance while I sat on the floor in the
parenting aisle rocking back and forth. I told him my frustration and my
disgust with the parenting books that they have on autism all most
about curing autism. His response was to write a book about it, about
women with Autism. So I came home and decided to start a blog.
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