Diagnosis Normal
Living with abuse, undiagnosed autism, and COVID-grade crazy
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Emma A. Jane
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Emma Jane
About this listen
Emma Jane has lived a thousand colourful lives. She escaped a small town and a traumatic childhood by moving to Sydney, where she made an indelible imprint on the oppressively blokey mediascape. She played in an all-girl band, married a rock star she hardly knew, had a baby, ditched journalism for academia, and changed her name from Emma Tom to Emma Jane. But all the while she was struggling with her mental health. Then, during the first Sydney lockdown she was accidentally sectioned in a psychiatric ward. At the time she wasn’t sure whether to be more embarrassed by the institutionalisation or the fact she’d forgotten to set her at-home eyebrow dye timer and looked like Groucho Marx. Given everyone suffered some sort of corona-related DIY body hair disaster, however, she decided to focus on her confinement, and when she was subsequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder a number of things suddenly fell into place.
Emma writes candidly about the complex combination of autism, mental illness and childhood sexual abuse that led to her being the person she is, and explores the impact each has on so many others in society. Critically, by breaking the toxic silence surrounding sexual violence and mental illness, she raises the possibility of not just surviving them but thriving. As she writes: ‘We need to speak unspeakable things. We need more un-pretty stories.’©2022 Emma Jane (P)2022 Penguin Random House Australia
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-09-2022
To relatable, it's scary!
I love this book! I will listen to it again. Emma's story is heart-reaching and raw, yet all too relatable to those who have experienced trauma and mental health. Emma is setting the example in this book to speak out loud about topics that are considered 'taboos' within our society yet are all so relevant and important to help those suffering on their journey of recovery. Thank you, Emma, I cried, laughed, and learnt a lot that will hopefully benefit me with my healing processes. x
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- Anonymous User
- 30-05-2023
OBSESSED!!
I love love loveee this book, it was an amazing, realistic perspective of life as an Australian Queer Neurodivergent bad ass!!
Obsessed and will be reading this amazing piece by Emma over and over and over again :))
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- Yael Clark
- 13-06-2022
Complex topics and raw authenticity
Thank you for your story. From another late diagnosed Autistic woman who relates to so much of what you wrote about.
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- Tanya
- 25-09-2023
Diagnosis normal
Worst book ever written or Read in my opinion. I am so very disappointed knit.
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