Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology

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This colorful smorgasbord of 53 short comics allows glimpses of how varied life experiences can be for people identifying as autistic. At the time, neither of those things made any sense to me, but I figured that since she was a professional astrologer and the mother of an autistic daughter that she was seeing what she was used to seeing. From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn’t always understand or accept them. A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagnosis journeys to finding community—from autistic contributors.

Since many children with autism live in their own heads, it can sometimes be a great challenge to engage them with the real world. really you could replace all the colors of the bar with a greyscale and it wouldn’t change but this color wheel works way better and I appreciate this. So part of what this means is that people who are “on the spectrum” as a formal diagnosis, need a lot more help to function in a world and a society that has been designed or created for those people who are “typical”, or in other words not near the end of the distribution of expectations to what people’s brains can achieve and cope with. My heart aches for how I managed to get to know my kids more on holiday, just by actually being with them and doing stuff together.Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I included one of these pictures in this article: https://quantumlivingpsychology. I appreciate a lot of the topics discussed as well as the intersectionality which I think is really important.

Not every installment spoke to me, but I’m sure that anyone looking to learn more about autism will find value. People with autism tend to respond much better to clear sensory material than they do with words; such as visuals, colour, storytelling, characters, etc. A lot of the sensory issues did not resonate with me, but masking and autistic burnout felt very familiar and would explain a lot. I'm really happy that this collection exists and I highly recommend it to anyone who is autistic or thinks they might be, or even has a loved one who is autistic and would like to understand many autistic people's experiences better. What started as an effort to help one child turned into a community for all parents and children to enjoy.I was also frustrated to see that the table of contents lists many of the creators by their proper names, but the Contributors section in the back of the book and online at https://asdcomix.

It's so great to have a book like this to read and learn more about your diagnosis and feel so much more relief as you find out how common some of the things you do that were previously seen as "weird".

Since most facts in the comic are communicated through visuals, the reader will find that even more accessible than most others. Editor Ollerton (contributor, Fantastic Frights anthology) has pulled together selections as varied as those identifying as autistic, including comics with flow-chart analysis, faces and bodies overwhelmed by thrashing chromatic shapes, and different animals symbolizing shifting mental states. You are correct in that everyone is a little different, and the labels of neuro-typical and neuro-divergent is both helpful and not helpful, as they do not capture that there is a grey area where it gets increasingly difficult to function in a society that is geared for the middle of the spectrum – picture a typical Bell curve or normal distribution from statistics – typical means those people who are not at either end of the curve, and could also be described as average. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum edited by Rebecca (Bex) Ollerton is "a Comics Anthology featuring comics from autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn't always understand or accept them.