Odd Girl Out - Review

Synopsis:

In Odd Girl Out, author Laura James details the year and a half after her diagnosis with adult Asperger's, a syndrome within autism spectrum disorder. It was a time she hoped would change everything for the better—and it did—but not before she hit bottom in her personal and professional life.

My Review:

A truthful and honest book detailing James’ life after her autism diagnosis. I found some parallels between Jones’ childhood and my own, but there were equally as many, if not more, differences between us, just confirming that each autistic person is amazingly unique.

Decent writing, more just a retelling of the facts interspersed with James’ opinions, which are quite repetitive, but I believe this fits best with the book, considering it is the story of an autistic person’s life, so should be written however this autistic person wants it to be written.

There were lots of interesting tales from her life and also stories that she has heard from fellow autistic people. The only thing that I, personally, didn’t like was that for the majority of the Book, James treats autism as something that she can blame all her faults on and repeatedly says that she wants to be cured and stuff like that. I didn’t like this attitude at all, but towards the end of the book she does become more accepting of her diagnosis and aims to embrace it in her life rather than fight against it.

My rating = 7/10

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