In the book, Adult Autism Essentials: A Step-By-Step to navigating Relationships, Professional Life and Finding Resources While Celebrating Our Strengths by Jason Jones starts off with an understanding of adult autism and ends with celebrating strengths and successes and covers everything in between.
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One of the many helpful chapters covers practical coping strategies. As a late in life diagnosed autistic adult, I know there is not one size fits all coping strategy that will help every autistic. However, the suggestions given in this chapter is a great starting point to help autistic adults with sensory issues better managing navigating the world that challenges their sensory limits.
This book also includes excellent chapters on navigating relationships of all types (something that I as an autistic struggle with) including family, friends, romantic partners, and more.
Jones, in his book, also covers the topics of employment and professional life including a brief primer of your rights as an employee, how to advocate for yourself including samples of what to say and how to say it to advocate without revealing your autistic.
There is a good chapter daily living skills and independence including conversations about managing money, when to ask for help for managing your money and how to use public transportation to travel from point A to point B and everywhere in between.
One of the most valuable resources I found in this book is the chapter on accessing resources and community support. There is no way, logically, any one book could list every single resource and community support available in every community, but this chapter gives you some good starting points to connect with resources and community support that you need as a autistic adult.
The case studies that Jones included in his book were helpful, and the chapter where he celebrates the success of our autistic adult brothers and sisters are great examples of what the neurodivergent can bring to the world.
I like how Jones shared his vision for the future where autism is not seen as an oddity, but as a valuable asset to our society and to the entire world – making the world a better place, more accessible place, for all.
Although anyone can benefit from this book, even those who are not on the spectrum but wish to understand more about autism to support someone they love who is on the spectrum (Joens does use analogies to help the neurotypical understand what it is like for their autistic counterpart), it is my opinion this book will be most helpful for any autistic who needs just minimal support in surviving in a neurotypical world.
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