Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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For someone on the outside (but not entirely), I am - and others, too, I’m sure - often thirsty for more understanding and insight than a Twitter post can provide.

Corvus Atlantic’s commercial fiction list which includes women’s, historical, romance, sci-fi, crime and thriller.It was a relief to follow Limberg as she patiently and delicately unfolded and put on display so many elements of autistic personhood and experience. Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society’s expectations…Through such delicately intertwined experiences, Limburg quietly shouts for change. Psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes like to argue that their language is value-neutral, but I don't believe that language which people use to describe other people could ever be.

While I am sure it could have been done otherwise, I feel it helped to make clear that Limburg is not attempting to diagnose Woolf.As part of this, Limburg weaves in her own stories and experiences, and, in doing so, makes an often beautiful and heartbreaking plea for understanding and action. In this book Limburg explores women that have been similarly marked ‘outsiders’ through history, and through writing personal letters from she to them, humanises their differences and compassionately explores what made them ‘weird’. That being said, it is fully Joanne Limburgs prerogative to place focus on whomever she sees fit in a book of her own making. That’s as good a definition of autism as I’ve ever read, and reminds me of the value of the unclassified routes down which our autistic brains so often travel.