344. Neurodivergence with Alison Spittle and Fern Brady
The Guilty Feminist
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Autistic Woman - What Was It Like to Be a Woman?
I learned the term talks like femininity and there's this amazing book by an autistic psychologist called Devon Price. He basically said, wait what was the question? I've got fucking ADHD about femininity,. Like the impositions of it. The way women socialize can be really painful for an autistic woman. Things like passive aggressiveness or sometimes women will say something nice and they're making a nice face like to me as an autistic. It seems like a smiley emoji but they're actually being mean so often you can get bullied as an autisticWoman. And then Regina George in Main Girls, which is actually I've re-watched Main Girls and watched it as an autistic film
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