rahrah wrote:
I bought it and read it yesterday. While I am obsessively consuming data right now having just come upon this realization about myself, I have to say the book Aspergirls was too anecdotal for me. I wanted more hard data and numbers. It is a fine and easy read but if you are looking for concrete info and data, then you will be left wanting. And, perhaps the data is simply not there to reproduce as the female Aspi is not heavily researched.
I too found it a bit 'light-on'. It was too full of subjective assertions to satisfy anyone wanting persuasive rigour. But as a survey of what some people think and say, it's fine. As a chance to feel like one of a crowd instead of a soloist it's fine. I might show it to a sympathetic AS or NT reader genuinely seeking insight. I definitely wouldn't show it to a sceptical person because it could easily reinforce that most hurtful belief that people use an Asperger Syndrome diagnosis as 'a certificate of exemption for bad behaviour' and that at base we're all a bunch of self-absorbed drama queens who just need to try harder. [Yes, I have been dealing with exactly that miserable sceptic lately; could you tell?
As of yesterday, he is out of my life.]
I read it a couple of years before my diagnosis and again immediately afterwards (i.e. in the last three days). I doubt if anything could satisfy my hunger for concrete information at the moment, so please read this mini-review through that filter!