6 best-selling biography books like Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum by Jennifer O'Toole

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Similar categories in Sarah Hendrickx's Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"All the qualifications in the world dont mean a thing if you can't hold a conversation."

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"I don't have the ability to process my feelings and articulate them; I just feel a whirl of emotions and physical sensations: dizziness, nausea, tight chest and overwhelming emotional pain..."

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"Mental health conditions are the outcome of this refusal to admit limitations. Admission of limitations equates to failure for many women with autism. Admitting vulnerability and asking for concessio…"

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"Real me only leaks out when the rote-learning system I have devised has insufficient data to maintain the facade. Real me is also allowed out in times of complete comfort and acceptance (it takes a r…"

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Similar categories in Rudy Simone's Aspergirls book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• feminism
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• self help

"Kind, open and non-judgmental people do not "mutate" me as I like to call it, and these are the people I do want to be around."

-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls

"When we're young we may be called "little professors," but when we get a bit older, we're more like "absent-minded professors."

-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls

"If it weren‘t for Asperger‘s and obsessions there would be no Theory of Relativity, no Magic Flute, no Microsoft…and no Ghost Busters."

-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls

"The trick is twofold: increase your self-confidence, and also, seek out the good in others, find whatever aspect of them you resonate with, no against."

-Rudy Simone, Aspergirls

Similar categories in Cynthia Kim's Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Similar categories in John Elder Robison's Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Similar categories in Jennifer Cook O'Toole's The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens with Asperger Syndrome book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Similar categories in Richard Panek's The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Similar categories in Laura James's Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Similar categories in Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Similar categories in Pete Wharmby's Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• biography
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."

-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Similar categories in Jenara Nerenberg's Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Similar categories in Bianca Toeps's Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Similar categories in Eric Garcia's We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• memoir
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Barb Cook's Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• memoir
• feminism
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• self help

Similar categories in Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• biography
• memoir
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• self help

"There are billions of us -- humans everywhere, with access to our own minds and no one else's, tossing one another songs and sentences to bridge the gap."

-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

"I’ve noticed a communication pattern among autistics, myself included—we often try to express solidarity through similarity. “I’ve been through something like that"

-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

Similar categories in Sarah Kurchak's I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• biography
• memoir
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"The people who are trying to be on our side have reduced us to a mere calculation"

-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

"I am still, ten years later, very much a work in progress. But at least I know what I am working on now."

-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

"It's not like, as the term "masking" seems to evoke, there's a superficial layer of actions and appearances that I can remove and instantly improve my life. I don't have a mask I can remove; I have a…"

-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

Similar categories in Temple Grandin's Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"A common source of disappointment and frustration for parents is the letdown that happens soon after diagnosis. Parents seek diagnostic evaluations both to better understand their child and also to h…"

-Temple Grandin, Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum

Similar categories in Paige Layle's But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• self help
• memoir
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"We remain hidden, tucked away behind corporations aiming to change us, pushing supplements and instant cures into the hands of desperate parents looking to make our lives better. We're hidden behind …"

-Paige Layle, But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

Similar categories in Joanne Limburg's Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction

"Guilt attaches to an act, but shame attaches to a person."

-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

"We are, all of us, striving constantly to pass those normality exams, to take our raw and boundless selves and squash them into the forms of neater and nicer girls."

-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

Similar categories in Daniel M. Jones's Autism for Adults: An Approachable Guide to Living Excellently on the Spectrum book and Jennifer O'Toole's Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

• memoir
• autistic spectrum disorder
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook