Category: autistic

Book Review: All the Things We Don’t Talk About

Book Review: All the Things We Don’t Talk About

This book was really difficult for me, personally, to get through, due to Trauma, You Know, of being part of a really dysfunctional family. But it’s also a story of wild interpersonal relationships, of existing around charismatic but ultimately destructive people (Zoe is the Caroline Calloway of this book and also this family), of betrayal […]

Cookbook Review: Cook As You Are

Cookbook Review: Cook As You Are

This book is incredible. The beginning of the book notes for “bottled, canned, and frozen food swaps” and makes recommendations. There’s a section for “Cooking with limited energy or mobility” as well as an entire chapter for this: More food, less work. And I think that she follows up on this throughout the course of […]

Posted July 20, 2022 by geograph in adult, autistic, nonfiction, review / 0 Comments
Book Review: The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules (10th anniversary edition)

Book Review: The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules (10th anniversary edition)

Look, I was prepared to absolutely hate this book and rip it apart because ‘asperger’s’ is Out of Vogue, but they actually address it and talk about it (although not Directly, ie, we don’t use Asperger’s anymore because Mr. Asperger was a Nazi, just that it is a Problematic Thing). I really think that if […]

Posted July 2, 2022 by geograph in autistic, nonfiction, review, YA / 0 Comments