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Drama Queen

One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

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Drama Queen

By: Sara Gibbs
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It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism would be to cure me of myself.

During the first 30 years of her life, comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a cry baby, a scaredy cat, a spoiled brat, a weirdo, a show off - but more than anything else, she'd been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her behaviour, her meltdowns or her intense emotions. She felt like everyone else knew a social secret that she hadn't been let in on, as if life was a party she hadn't been invited to. Why was everything so damn hard? Little did Sara know that, at the age of 30, she would be given one more label that would change her life's trajectory forever. That one day, sitting next to her husband in a clinical psychologist's office, she would learn that she had never been a drama queen, or a weirdo, or a cry baby, but she had always been autistic.

Drama Queen is both a tour inside one autistic brain and a declaration that a diagnosis on the spectrum, with the right support, accommodations and understanding, doesn't have to be a barrier to life full of love, laughter and success. It is the story of one woman trying to fit into a world that has often tried to reject her, and, most importantly, it's about a life of labels and the joy of ripping them off one by one.

©2021 Sara Gibbs (P)2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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Loved every minute of this. Well written and well read. It was both thoroughly entertaining and much food for thought. Thanks!!

Funny, sad, eye-opening

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Thank you Sara for writing this book. I absolutely enjoyed listening to your life story. I am 50 years old and awaiting a professional assessment for Autism. Your book has given me endless light bulb moments and answers. Along with this and online self assessments, I now know why my whole life has been a never ending struggle. Thank you again.

Absolutely fantastic!!!

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"I wish for us to live in a world where you saying you're autistic answeres more questions than it raises. I wish that people discovering they're autistic isn't more traumatic than hearing you're left handed." me too, Sara. if you are someone who knows anyone (yourself?) who is or might be autistic, please read this book.

wonderful

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This was my first Audible story and what an amazing story. I chuckled out loud, cried a tear and loved every bit of it.

I wanted it to never end

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A deeply necessary read post diagnosis. Funny and poignant. Like the author, I was diagnosed as an adult and found myself replaying my life in my head. I'm grateful to be able to hear another person's perspective.

From one autistic woman to another: thank you

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