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Unmasking for Life is out today!
Where to get my latest book on neurodiversity.
My fourth bouncing baby book, Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person’s Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically is now born, and out everywhere that books can be found!
I wrote Unmasking for Life as a follow-up to Unmasking Autism that expands upon its core premises and explores the latest neurodiversity-informed research that has been published since the book came out. I was also inspired to write it by the numerous questions that readers have presented me over the last couple years.
This is a book about the stage of unmasking that comes after realizing that you are disabled, and begin having to worry about accommodating that disability in all facets of one’s life. Instead of only looking inward and focusing on getting to know one’s true, disabled self, the book encourages the reader to take steps in how they relate to others & structure their lives that will allow that self to more comfortably move throughout the world. In chapters devoted Friendship, Family, Work, Sex & Love, and Aging, I summarize some of the most common struggles that neurodivergent people face, explore the data on what challenges us and what supports we…