Different, Not Less: A neurodivergent's guide to embracing your true self and finding your happily ever after

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As a self help/discovery kind of book it is definitely too positive for me as it portrays things that are sometimes not attainable in the world as we know it at this time. An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old actor, social media star and advocate Chloé Hayden. As an autistic person who was taught to mask 24/7 through what I now believe was something ABA-adjacent, it's so hard to imagine a life where I am able to function in society comfortably. Unfortunately I'm just a miserable 30-something who related to nothing other than our shared neurodivergence.

This is a moving, at times funny story of how it feels to be neurodivergent as well as a practical guide, with advice for living with meltdowns and shutdowns, tips for finding supportive communities and much more.Whether you're neurodivergent or supporting those who are, ‘Different, Not Less’ will inspire you to create a more inclusive world where everyone feels like they belong. i wish i had this book growing up instead of wanting to off myself for how my brain works and thinking i was just broken and wired wrong. Her unrelenting positivity regarding the future felt a bit like being kicked while you're down when she failed to acknowledge how her privileges have made her success possible/accessible in the first place. Highly recommend to those newly diagnosed, and also recommend to those with loved ones recently diagnosed (children, friends, partners etc), this book will be really helpful in learning how to support the neurodivergents in your life.

Vil spesielt anbefala an fordi an tar utgangspunkt i ein enkeltpersons opplevelser, i stedet for typiske kalde fakta som bøker om disse temaene ofta tar for seg. Reading that small, blink-and-you'll-miss-it excerpt gave me a quite frankly dangerous amount of hope. I did find it a little bit frustrating when collective nouns were used to describe experiences when a key point of the book is that neurodivergence is different for everyone. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).

Whether you or someone you know is neurodivergent, or neither and you simply want to better yourself by being educated by someone who ACTUALLY has firsthand experience with being neurodivergent, this is the book for you. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. That's not me shaming anyone for what they love - I just *don't* relate to the genie from Aladdin in a very significant way, nor do I necessarily agree that Rafiki in The Lion King is coded as having ADHD. Different, Not Less is a moving, at times funny story of how it feels to be neurodivergent as well as a practical guide, with insights on how autism and ADHD present differently in females, advice for living with meltdowns and shutdowns, tips for finding supportive relationships, communities and workplaces and much more. It also has great POTS rep too and makes an excellent case for why we really need to abandon the previously popular 'Asperger's' label with the connections to its Nazi namesake and his involvement with exterminating so many neurodivergent people during WWII (and beyond?

When a life-changing group of allies showed her that different did not mean less, she learned to celebrate her true voice and find her happily ever after. I feel like the assumed readers are kids/teens with similar interests to Chloé who would enjoy all the fairy tale analogies and find something new in the advice about school, dating, self care, socialising, and adulting. Autistic and other neurodiverse people regardless are age are taught that we don't deserve to be our most authentic selves or feel comfortable. As someone navigating parenting as a neurodivergent adult in her mid 30s for example, I found that there was a lot in here that just didn't work for me, and that's OK, because I wouldn't want someone over a decade younger than me with no children giving me parenting advice.

If you want to read about what it is like to be disabled in a world full of ableism then please do yourself a favour and pick this up. Whilst I was not able to relate to every single experience of Chloé, I was able to see myself in her, a little girl afraid to tell people who she was in fear that they would reject me, seeing me only for my diagnosis. The areas of life in which I have the highest support needs - parenting and "running a home" (whatever that means) - aren't mentioned. I feel like this book is for other autistic people, whether you learn something new about (your) autism or just want to hear another story that might be similar to yours, “Different Not Less” is an interesting read, but I personally wouldn’t recommend it to my friends and family to be honest, because it’s just not coherent enough. This book, like the author themselves, radiates a fierce, unapologetic and joyous Disability Pride that makes it impossible to put down .