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Understanding Autistic Adults
Supporting Personal and Professional Pathways and Overcoming Challenges
- 251 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Understanding Autistic Adults
Supporting Personal and Professional Pathways and Overcoming Challenges
About this book
Understanding Autistic Adults: Supporting Personal and Professional Pathways and Overcoming Challenges delves deeply into the experiences of autistic adults, providing comprehensive insights into potential professional paths and the psychological hurdles they may face in adulthood. It illuminates the experiences of autistics in professional fields like medicine, music, teaching, and therapy, alongside challenges like gender diversity, eating disorders, dissociative disorders (depersonalization-derealization disorder and DID), sex work, and professional stagnation. Theoretical chapters offer differentiations between autism and other psychiatric conditions; describe autistic thinking in terms of a disrupted integration between primary and secondary processes; provide a matrix for mapping various manifestations of autism; and outline support strategies tailored for autistics, therapists, government systems, and future research. Geared toward the ever-expanding audience of autistic individuals and mental health professionals, this book provides valuable insights into previously underexplored experiences to foster more understanding and validation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Professional Pathways for Autistic Adults
- Chapter 1: Autistic Doctors
- Chapter 2: Autistic Therapists
- Chapter 3: Autistic Musicians
- Chapter 4: Autistic Teachers
- Chapter 5: Other Professional Arenas Where Autistics May Be Found
- Part II: Challenges in the Lives of Autistic Adults
- Chapter 6: Autism and Eating Disorders
- Chapter 7: Autism and Gender Diversity
- Chapter 8: Klinefelter Syndrome and Autism
- Chapter 9: Autistics in the Sex Industry
- Chapter 10: Autism and Dissociative DisordersāDID, Derealization, Depersonalization
- Chapter 11: Autistics Who Seem to Be āStuckā
- Part III: Broader Theoretical Perspectives
- Chapter 12: Common Misdiagnoses and Key Differences Compared to Autism
- Chapter 13: The Disrupted Integration between Primary and Secondary Processes in Autistic Thinking
- Chapter 14: A Proposed Matrix for the Categorization of Autistic People
- Endnote
- References
- Index
- About the Author