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Stim : an Autistic Anthology by Lizzie Huxley-Jones; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stim : an Autistic Anthology about?

Who do you picture when you think of an autistic person? Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, Rain Man, the boy from Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time? These are the responses you’ll get from most people. Not the most diverse line up of voices, not least because they are all fictional, and all follow a really specific set of characteristics: good at maths, socially inappropriate, male, strange. Yet the saying goes in the autistic community that if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person; our individualities make us just as unique as neurotypical\* people, shining through beyond the diagnostic criteria that links us. Around 1 in 100 people in the UK are autistic, but rarely do autistic people have a voice. Dialogue around autism often follows a bleak and cliched path -- “problem” children, parents desperately seeking answers and cures, unemployment -- and it has been neurotypical people who have often led the discussion on autism in the wider media, the parents, carers, doctors, and experts. They are the ones on the daytime tv sofas, in parliament, or writing about their experiences with us. While these voices are important, the balance is tipped,

Who reads Stim : an Autistic Anthology?

Author

Lizzie Huxley-Jones; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783529056

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Anthology, Fiction