Sarah BargielaCamouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women

Love how concise this book is and the details about specific Women’s experiences are included. Planning to share this with several family members.

I enjoyed using this book as a graphic while educating my parents and spouse. I cried the first time and a few other times I’ve read it.

The content is beautifully written and informative. I love the graphics and think this will be a great read once I get into it more. My only complaint is that I purchased a brand new book from Amazon and when it arrived today, the cover was dirty and damaged. There are chip marks punctuated on the cover and the binding is creased and worn in parts, like it had been thrown around multiple times. I was expecting a product in better condition for the price I paid. 5 stars to the author and artist, 1 star to Amazon.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝗼𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝗼𝗼𝐤:👉It will take you less than 30 minutes to read!👉It highlights the different presentations of Autistic females compared to males👉It will significantly deepen your understanding of the characteristics of an autistic mind👉It is beautifully illustrated👉All ages from 2-100+ would benefit from reading this👉It explains why there is a higher number of males diagnosed with ASD compared to females who are actually diagnosed👉 This cover is magnificent! Pure #coverloveHave I convinced you?

I really enjoyed this book and look forward to sharing it or gifting it to friends, I work in a field that serves individuals with an ASD diagnosis and I loved learning more by reading this and think it's awesome that it is beautifully illustrated and also formatted as a graphic novel/info graphic !!!

Helpful for both kiddos and adults. It's important to know that this book is created from a visual approach, filled with drawings and infographics. It's a really helpful resource to validate, give language to experiences, and approach the topic of neurodiverse identity in a friendly and safe way.

i wanted to like this so bad, but i just don't get it. It's more like a children's book with mostly just pictures. I was hoping for an actual book with more stories or information or something. I just don't know who it is written for. Maybe to put in a doctor's office waiting room? I was disappointed.

I really liked it. I saw some people who said they didn't like the pictures, but I personally liked the visuals. My only complaint is I wish it was longer.

Super basic. I can't believe I spent £10 on this. This information is all available on the Internet for free.

It’s a really beautiful book, the illustrations and graphics are really nice but the book itself is somewhat lacking.It’s only a general overview of autism in a few pages and read In about 10 minutes and the information is what you would be able to find out with a quick google, I would like it more if it offered more information or insight into women with autism.It felt like an opening chapter.Lovely pictures and probably handy to show someone who’s very new to understanding autism but definitely finished unsatisfied.

I bought this book as I am an autistic illustrator hoping to create work around neurodiversity.Firstly, from the perspective of a non-binary person, this book uses ‘gendered autism’ language, which excludes those outside of the gender binary.Whilst it is important to validate the experiences of autistic women, it is important to note that not all autistic women relate to “female traits”, not all autistic men relate to “male traits” and non-binary folks can be anywhere in between. It’s more helpful to look at the extent to which an autistic person masks their traits. For example, (AFAB non-binary here) growing up, my autistic traits would have been considered “male”, however post-puberty and during secondary school, social pressure caused me to mask my traits fitting more into a “female” box. These days, as a 21 year old, since slowly learning to unmask, I would be considered to sit somewhere between male and female traits.Gendered autism doesn’t do anyone any favours - as mentioned previously it’s much better to look at the extent to which someone masks of ‘hides’ their autistic traits.Autism is a spectrum, and as the saying goes “if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person” - the spectrum is so vast, we cannot be put into boxes.Having said this, gendered/ableist language aside - the book offers a good introduction to autism among those who mask. The illustrations are lovely and inspire me to create illustrations exploring our autistic experiences as our authentic selves :-)

Nice looking book but very basic. There are more words on the product description than in the book! Only but if you need very basic info spelled out very simply.

Great introduction & conversation about autism in women. The visual representation and facts help to get an understanding of our current ideas around autism and autism in women.