A fascinating collection of essays from one of the co-creators of the term Neuroqueer. As this is a collection of essays all written across different times with some annotations and additional essays based on some essays there is a bit of repetition spread out between the essays, which sometimes made my experience of listening to the audiobook a bit tedious and unfortunately is the reason I found myself unable to vote this 5 stars. Here I think the editing could have been done a bit tighter, which would have made the reading experience more enjoyable.
However on their own each essay in this book is incredibly powerful and interesting and so I would advice you to read them one-by-one and letting yourself digest them a bit, if you want to be able to enjoy them more.
As somebody who has heard the term neurodiversity and neuroqueer a lot, but has not dived deep into what their meaning is (in particular neuroqueer), this book was incredibly informative and interesting and I enjoyed it a lot. I particularly adored the combination of the activist and academic approach to autistic empowerment. I also enjoyed the chapter about autistic movement and the way autistic teachers who want their students to unmask need to lead by example by allowing their own autistic movement patterns to emerge instead of masking them.
This is definitely a book I would recommend to anybody interested in the neurodiversity paradigm (aka the social model of disability), anybody who's neurodivergent themself and interested in learning more about neuroqueerness and especially to anybody working with neurodivergent people in a professional setting, whose goal it is to embrace a social model of disability instead of an medical one.