Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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It also addressed how commonly mothers are blamed for autism in children, which was informative for me to read. If you don't register someone as a fellow human being, you are less inclined to treat them like one.

many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. I love the premise of this book, I love the letters from Limburg that make these historical women current and therefore bringing their differences and ‘weird’-ness into the modern day where perhaps they would have been better understood. We are, all of us, striving constantly to pass those normality exams, to take our raw and boundless selves and squash them into the forms of neater and nicer girls.Når disse fortælling og refleksioner kobles sammen med feminisme og handicapaktivsme, så sker der magi. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. Det er 4 kvinder som forfatteren identificerer som “werid sisters” som blev udstød pga der unormale opførsel.

Det faktum er at det breve gør at der bliver skrevet til dem i stedet for om dem, hvilket er forfriskende. Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations.I've only known I'm autistic for about a year, and I'm really starting to dig into some deeper ideas about how people relate to autism and how we fit into this world that doesn't make space for us. None of us could ever be as pretty and nice and odourless inside and out as good girls and nice women are supposed to be, as we are supposed to be by definition. Within the first few pages, this book identified and articulated feelings and experiences I had not yet been able to name, process, or articulate myself. Men forfatteren ser også på hendes egen lyst til at separere sig fra specifikke typer af autistiske mennesker, såsom dem der er hjerneskadet eller lignede, hun reflektere over det.