Our Autistic Lives, Alex Ratcliffe
Our Autistic Lives, Alex Ratcliffe
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Our Autistic Lives
Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+

Author: Alex Ratcliffe

Narrator: Gavin Osborn, Katy Sobey, Lucy Price-Lewis, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Mark Meadows, Ric Jerrom

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 01/21/2020

Synopsis

This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70s+. These are varied and diverse, spanning different continents, genders, sexualities and ethnicities, yet the author highlights the common themes that unite them and skilfully draws out these threads.

Each chapter is based on accounts from one age group and includes accounts from people of that age, giving an insight into the history of autism and signifying how gaining a diagnosis (or not) has changed people's lives over time. The book is about ageing with an autistic mind, and helping the reader find connections between neurotypical and neurodiverse people by acknowledging the challenges we all face in our past, present and futures.

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on January 20, 2020

Our Autistic Lives chronicles and celebrates the lives of a diverse range of people who feature at all different sectors of the spectrum. It is a deeply inspirational, moving and honest look at an often misunderstood and sometimes-maligned condition and I am overjoyed that the publisher has put such......more

Goodreads review by Iona on August 21, 2020

These are accounts written by autistic adults, divided into age groups. They come from various parts of the world. I found these accounts to be interesting/very readable and confirm my own diagnosis. The individuals expressing themselves in the book are articulate, intelligent and gifted. Their autism......more

Goodreads review by Catalina on March 11, 2025

Really enjoyed this book, it's a collection of autistic people's stories, being diagnosed later in life and how they navigated the world before and after. ❤️ Found myself in little pieces of each story.......more

Goodreads review by Chris on January 26, 2020

A wonderful set of personal stories. Moving, funny, powerful, interesting, insightful. A great collection.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on December 17, 2019

Autistic adults are so often hidden in the sidelines while the focus both medically and socially is on children, finding literature that addresses our lives, needs and experience is wonderful. I really appreciated the fact that the autistic adults who were the subject of the book were allowed to spe......more

Quotes

Uniquely covering a lifespan and intersecting a range of communities and cultures; This book adds to the growing voice of an enormously diverse population of people who've spent a lifetime suppressing who they are, in order to fit into a world that fears difference.

Too often, we forget that roughly 75% of Autistic people are adults. Our Autistic Lives is invaluable because it offers intimate insights from Autistic adults in every decade of life, to their seventies and beyond. Ratcliffe's book is crucial reading for understanding autism across the lifespan.

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