Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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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. Jeg tror det er sundt for mange os at høre om handicappede mennesker som vi måske ikke selv identificerer og jeg tror at dette er en god måde at starte. I hope that in future editions of this book, the author can at least make a note acknowledging that she’s really mostly talking about people who were assigned female.As a whole the discussion on motherhood was wonderful, however some discomfort arose when Autism mums became centralised. That’s as good a definition of autism as I’ve ever read, and reminds me of the value of the unclassified routes down which our autistic brains so often travel. Whilst I enjoyed the content, I did feel it jarred every time Limburg brought the letter back to the subject of the recipient, and the formatting just didn’t flow as nicely together as Limburg perhaps intended. The authors experience of her feelings of fear, and guilt that she went through during pregnancy and after birth was really vulnerable. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

Det faktum er at det breve gør at der bliver skrevet til dem i stedet for om dem, hvilket er forfriskende.

Det er 4 kvinder som forfatteren identificerer som “werid sisters” som blev udstød pga der unormale opførsel. This notion, that the mother-baby dyad, standing apart from all others, is an ideal template for child-rearing, is a collective delusion quite specific to our culture in the Global North, and it would be better for everyone if we collectively snapped out of it. I was immediately drawn in by the description of how it feels to be a person that triggers the 'uncanny valley' phenomenon in others - I have thought about, read and watched videos on this many times, focusing on why and how it happens - but never once have I come across something that chooses to focus on what it actually feels like to be the person on the receiving end of being registered that way and what it does to you as a person. The next chapter went back to a far too meandering and personal narrative, when she was meant to be writing about Adelheid Bloch.

these brave women struggled on the page, as they tried to negotiate between the felt pressure of their own perceptions and experiences and the established forms of language which resisted their attempts to express them. Topics of interest: Autistic mothers, letters to people in history, the children in Asperger's wards, the uncanny, and what it feels like to exist in between worlds. Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society’s expectations…Through such delicately intertwined experiences, Limburg quietly shouts for change.This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere.