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ISBN 10: 1000390802
ISBN 13: 9781000390803
Author: Joanna Grace
The Subtle Spectrum An Honest Account of Autistic Discovery Relationships and Identity 1st Edition Table of contents:
1 Introduction
2 Mapping experiences of being a diagnosed autistic: more of a doodle than an Ordnance Survey Map
2.1 Relief
2.2 Questioning how to phrase your identification
2.3 Deciding who to tell
2.4 Thinking about everything over and over again
2.5 Have you been being You or have you been being your best impression of Normal?
2.6 Paradigms, prejudices and neuro-normative narratives
2.7 Wrestling with your own biases, prejudices and stereotypes
3 Travelling from autism awareness to autistic identity
3.1 Difference
3.2 Awareness
3.3 Understanding
3.4 Acceptance
3.5 Recognising
3.6 Identity
4 Fragments of difference
4.1 Playgroup
4.2 The playground
4.3 Another playground
4.4 Shadows
4.5 Trees and toilets
4.6 Sticks and stones
5 Reflections on difference
5.1 Everyone is different
5.2 Could things have been different?
5.3 Slow-motion memories
6 Fragments of awareness
6.1 Watching paint dry
6.2 The yoghurt conundrum
6.3 Scripting conversation
6.4 Job interview
7 Moving between difference and awareness
7.1 Realising difference
7.2 Reflections on awareness
8 Diagnosis
8.1 Fixing
8.2 Masking
8.3 Unveiling
8.4 Going to the doctor
8.5 Going to the clinical psychologist
9 The report
9.1 A grown-up child
9.2 Emotions
9.3 Social skills
9.3.1 Perspective on ‘success’
9.4 Forming relationships
9.5 Communication
9.5.1 Communication in context
9.5.2 Communication within relationships
9.6 Fixed and focused thinking
9.7 Reflection: a mosaic
10 Blog part one: : the first weeks after diagnosis
10.1 Does this suit me?
10.2 Week one wobbles
10.3 Telling people
10.4 You do not seem autistic
10.5 I am autistic: I am English
10.6 Hiding in the closet
10.7 Even ‘out’ it is still locked inside
10.8 I am not right anymore
11 Reflecting on the impact of diagnosis on my identity
11.1 Identity erased
11.2 Say Yes to the Dress
11.2.1 Repeated study
11.3 Deficit and pathology
11.4 Coming out
12 Blog part two: : the first months after diagnosis
12.1 Give up masking?
12.2 Double thinking diminishes me
12.3 Blog part two
12.3.1 Is my binary thinking right or wrong?
12.3.2 So cross I could cry
12.3.3 Worn out by wearing so many layers
12.3.4 Absence makes the heart grow fonder
12.3.5 Sticks and stones
12.3.6 Barriers between the neurotypical, the self-diagnosed neurodivergent and the professionally diagnosed neurodivergent communities
12.3.7 Is my love like your love?
12.3.8 Friend or symptom?
13 Reflection
13.1 Looking back
13.2 Looking forward – acceptance
13.3 Everyone
13.4 Life
13.5 Suicide
14 Blog part three: half a year after diagnosis
14.1 Lacking in the social graces
14.2 Glass layers
14.3 All they can be?
14.4 Here be dragons
14.5 I can’t keep up
14.6 I make up stories
14.7 Ticking the right boxes
14.8 Just out of reach
15 Reflection: history repeating
16 Love across a neurodiverse divide (explanations of a photoblog)
16.1 An empty space on brand new shelves
16.2 A door open, the same door pictured ajar and closed
16.3 A screen shot of a WhatsApp message
16.4 A tablet mounted on an adjustable stand
16.5 Britney’s shaven head
16.6 An old desktop computer
16.7 My reflection in a train vestibule window
16.8 A single eye
16.9 A packet of antibiotics
16.10 A cartoon of stick men entitled ‘Call a spade a spade’
16.11 Me five months pregnant wearing workout clothing
16.12 A crystal ball
17 Reflection: interoception
17.1 Are you excited?
17.2 Smiling at work
17.3 How are you?
17.4 Interoception
17.5 An implausible world
18 Emotional connection
18.1 Friendships and emotions
18.2 Emotional shutdown
18.3 Divorce
18.4 Dangers of misinterpretation
18.5 The picture of my son and me
19 Pregnancy (explanations of a photoblog)
19.1 A pack of information about pregnancy
19.2 A urine sample pot
19.3 A scrap of paper with a few inadequate notes scrawled upon it
19.4 Me with a newborn standing in a beam of sunlight in an orchard outside a small cottage hospital in Germany
20 Special interests
20.1 My special interest
21 Reflection: recognising the impossibility of change was crucial
22 To be identified is our pride
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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