Sarah BargielaRecensioni

This is a wonderful book to read if you are a female and feel like you possibly could be Autistic. Men and women on the spectrum are completely different in how their Autism is expressed. This book highlights those differences and it’s a picture book, making it age appropriate for everyone. As an autistic female, I camouflaged myself for 40 years of my life. This led me to a dark place where I attempted suicide. Suicide is very common in Autistic people who hide their true selves. Fortunately, I sought help and it was when I was diagnosed with ASD, that I was able to reveal my true self!! A truly life changing event, that I wish would have been discovered years ago.

This is a quick read and I highly recommend it to everyone so more Autistic females will be accepted for who they truly are in the world!

Received via NetGalley for review.

Beautifully illustrated and concise, this small graphic novel informs (and never bores!) you of the different ways autism presents in women and men. The differences are so striking that it makes sense women are less often diagnosed and treated.

Definitely a great resources for readers of any age on a little-known subject.

Interesting work about the differences between men and women who are autistic, what traits they may exhibit and share, and the experiences of a few women with autism.

I don't know much about autism and didn't realize it presented itself differently in women! Nearly all the behaviors that I had associated with autistic people were behaviors which were actually associated with autistic MEN. I'm happy for the further reading that Dr. Bargiela included in the back.

The presentation and art are a bit odd, but, whoa, is this slim little book chock-full of eye-opening information about underdiagnosis of autism in women.

An engaging graphic novel to explain how autism can differ in girls, why it is missed and why girls are so good at camouflage. Contains a lot of useful information in an easy-to-read style.

» I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed my time with this. It was very informative and had absolutely beautiful illustrations.

Prior to going into this, I really didn't know much about autism. At all. I vaguely knew of special interests but beyond that, I was pretty clueless. This book lays out a brief history of the first people to study and publish about autism, behavior patterns of autism, and mainly how autism presents differently in women as opposed to men. I learned quite a lot while reading. Everything was broken down into very simplistic language and I came out the book having an understanding of autism that I didn't prior.

The second half of the book was devoted to discussing three autistic women's experience with their autism and how they each experienced it individually. I absolutely loved hearing how different each of their experiences were and how they've grown throughout them. In a book that explores how autism presents differently in women, I think it was very critical that we hear from multiple autistic women and this book delivered.

Finally, the illustrations! I loved how this book was illustrated so much. Initially, I clicked on this because of the cover and the rest of the book is just as beautiful.

With the great graphics and bite-sized chunks of information, Camouflage can almost be seen as a large pamphlet. It's quite short, only around 40 pages, and yet it's packed full of data and firsthand accounts of autistic women. Illustrated and well-researched, Bargiela introduces us to the differences between men and women with autism (and Asperger's). I found it informative, eye-opening, and to the point. She also gives additional reading recommendations at the end which I always find helpful.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Studying any material related to autism should be mandatory for all teachers. Apart from the actual teaching of a specific subject, we must support our students, we must care for them and their problems and do everything within our means to help them. We didn’t choose this profession to kill time, we chose to be teachers out of love for children and the need to offer. At least that would happen in an ideal world. Unfortunately, there’s always a significant number of teachers who consider teaching a chore that they must carry out and be done with it. Psychology and research mean very little to them. So, this is not reading material for these ‘’teachers’’. However, it is of special importance to the rest of us. Dr. Sarah Bagiela has developed a concise booklet on the ways autism can be diagnosed and its influence on various aspects of daily life.

''Camouflage''. An excellent choice for the title of the booklet, in my opinion. Dr. Bagiela stresses the differences between women diagnosed with autism and men who face the same situation and presents a number of extremely interesting conclusions. Women hide, camouflage autism by resorting to social mimicry skills. In my opinion, this is one more indicator of the subconscious, powerful influence of social norms on the sexes. Developed around three interviews of women diagnosed with autism, we are introduced to the notions of restricted interests, repetitive behaviours, and sensitivities. The difficulty of social interactions and the importance of interests in the life of these women. And what about men, you may ask. This is not a book on men with autism but on the secrecy and complexity of the world of autistic women. It has nothing to do with equality or inequality as a review mentioned and it's time to stop seeing monsters where there are none. It's getting tiresome. Researchers deal with specific fields. This is exactly a specific field, whether some like it or not (or choose to let their prejudices blind them...) And it is an excellent read.

Enriched with beautiful illustrations by Sophie Standing in green, orange and white and with a very interesting bibliography, Camouflage will interest those who seek to start reading on autism and the ones who have extensive knowledge on the subject. It is moving, powerful and very, very real.

Many thanks to Jessica Kingsley Publishers and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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