How To Be Autistic

Name: How To Be Autistic
Brand: Hachette New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9781912408320
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By Charlotte Amelia Poe

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How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe offers a candid and insightful look into the author's experiences with autism. Blending personal stories with social commentary, the memoir explores Poe's journey through the challenges and triumphs of being autistic. It delves into themes of identity, acceptance, and resilience, providing a powerful narrative that aims to educate and inspire readers.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in gaining a personal insight into living with autism. Through honest and powerful storytelling, the author shares their experiences and challenges, providing a unique perspective that resonates with readers seeking understanding and empathy.

An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the UK Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism.

The Owl Bookshop Favourite Books; Hampshire Libraries: Featured Choice for Inclusion Week; Jaclynne Anne 2020 Best Nonfiction Read; The Page and the Stage Favourite Nonfiction of 2020

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An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism.

Poe's voice is confident, moving and often funny, as they reveal to us a very personal account of autism, mental illness, gender and sexual identity.

As we follow Charlotte's journey through school and college, we become as awestruck by their extraordinary passion for life as by the enormous privations that they must undergo to live it. From food and fandom, to body modification and comic conventions, Charlotte's experiences through the torments of schooldays and young adulthood leave us with a riot of conflicting emotions: horror, empathy, despair, laugh-out-loud amusement and, most of all, respect.

For Charlotte, autism is a fundamental aspect of their art and identity. They address their readers in a voice that is direct, sharply clever and ironic. They witness their own behaviour with a wry humour as they sympathise with those who care for them, yet all the while challenging the narratives of autism as something to be 'fixed'.

'I wanted to show the side of autism that you don't find in books and on Facebook. My story is about survival, fear and, finally, hope. There will be parts that make you want to cover your eyes, but I beg you to read on, because if I can change just one person's perceptions, if I can help one person with autism feel like they're less alone, then this will all be worth it.'

This is an exuberant, inspiring, life-changing insight into autism from a viewpoint almost entirely missing from public discussion.

'A passionate, hugely articulate argument for the acceptance of difference. Every teacher, every parent, every person should read this book.' - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now

'Raw and remarkable.' - The Guardian

'Shows us both the desperate and bleak angle to autism, as well as the beautiful side.' - Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University

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Charlotte Amelia Poe's How To Be Autistic receives praise for its raw, candid, and insightful portrayal of life on the autism spectrum. Reviewers highlight the memoir's strong, unfiltered voice and its ability to evoke both laughter and tears. It's described as a hopeful and enlightening narrative that effectively challenges stereotypes about autism, offering invaluable perspectives for both autistic and neurotypical readers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781912408320

Publisher: Myriad Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Myriad Editions

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

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Biography & Memoir Charlotte Amelia Poe Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Charlotte Amelia Poe is a self-taught artist and writer living in Lowestoft, Suffolk. They also work with video, and won the inaugural Spectrum Art Prize with the film they submitted, ‘How To Be Autistic’. Myriad published Charlotte’s memoir, How To Be Autistic, in September 2019. In 2020 How To Be Autistic won the memoir and biography category, East Anglian Book Awards, and was runner-up of the ALCS Educational Writers’ Award. Charlotte uses they/them pronouns.