If you are a parent considering giving this book to your daughter, please read it thoroughly first. She also claims that Aspergirls have psychic powers. She states that people with AS should embrace their unique strengths and then goes on to suggest that autism is caused by the mythical "leaky gut" and that symptoms can be mitigated by taking certain supplements. This book is about Rudy Simone's life experience as an "Aspergirl." She comes across as bitter and her views are anything but empowering. I would give the first half 4.5/5 stars and the second half 1.5/5 stars. HOWEVER, the list is so broad (includes very common problems such as heartburn) that I'm sure if you gave this survey to a representative sample of NTs you would get 9/10 people having at least one of these problems.Īs much as I appreciated the first half of the book, especially the section on mutism, I wish I hadn't forked $10 over for it, because large parts of it were not relevant to me, and, being a biology major, the pseudoscience really, really, really bugged me. The author gives a list of 'gastrointestinal problems' (list includes migraines) and says that 9/10 aspergirls have these problems. Anecdotes and studies/surveys without a control ARE NOT SCIENCE AND DO NOT PROVE ANYTHING. One final negative point: this book relies on a lot of pseudoscience, most particularly the last chapter about gastrointestinal problems.
The romance section was entirely focused on male partners, and I wish she would have acknowledged in this chapter that some aspergirls aren't straight.
Another subject I wish it had touched on was Queer aspergirls. It was touched on many times, but there was never a discussion dedicated to it, which I think is a shame because I know that is a common problem encountered by aspergirls. One area I think the book was lacking in was a discussion of social and/or generalized anxiety. I know I'm lucky not to have those problems and that they are problems for many aspergirls, so I'm glad she included them, but she should acknowledge in some way that those problems are not universal. She seems to say that all aspergirls have these problems, but you don't have to have those problems to be an asperrgirl. I have aspergers, but I don't get temper meltdowns or have depression. However, about halfway through it seems like the author stopped taking in as many perspectives, or something, because what she was talking about stopped being relevant to me.
I thought the first half of this book was very good, showing how the core elements of aspergers manifest in daily life in different ways for different women and girls.
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