Drama Queen
One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels
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Sara Gibbs
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Sara Gibbs
About this listen
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 LtdWhat listeners say about Drama Queen
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- Yael Clark
- 13-05-2022
One of the very best!
As a late identified Autistic woman myself (and a Psychologist who works with neurodivergent people), I read every relevant book that comes out. Sarah's story is moving in and of itself and as a description of being Autistic it is superb. I related so deeply to so much! I'll recommend this to many clients.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-10-2022
Absolutely wonderful
Loved it! I cried, I laughed and I cried some more.
genuinely quite interesting learning how women with autism are treated so different not buy society but the medical establishment as well.
give it read! you'll love the narration. :)
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- Anonymous User
- 03-07-2021
A Must Read
I loved this
It is amazing difficult a story
that has parts of so many stories
we don't have a language
but we start one
so good
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- Sam
- 06-05-2022
A great memoir of an Autistic woman's life
Loved this book. Highly recommend.
It is a bit fun hearing how Sara's accent changes as she gets more comfortable reading, but as you'd expect she didn't read the whole thing in one hit so each time she has started recording she goes through the process of getting comfortable.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-2022
absolutely brilliant
loved this book - such a rollercoaster, had me laughing out loud at certain points and crying uncontrollably at others. highly recommend.
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- Kayla Sharp
- 21-06-2022
fantastic
this audiobook is funny, is sad, is engaging, is (personally) incredibly relatable... and it helps. thanking you so much for sharing your experience Sara.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-10-2021
More a long running complaint than a biography
More a long running complaint than a biography, the autism part came in after about chapter 15 from memory.
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