{"product_id":"all-along-a-field-guide-for-women-who-discovered-they-were-autistic-in-adulthood-unmasking-regulating-and-building-a-life-that-actually-fits-9798197748256","title":"All Along: A Field Guide for Women Who Discovered They Were Autistic in Adulthood-Unmasking, Regulating, and Building a Life That Actually Fits","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maren Cole\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou watched the video at eleven-thirty on a Tuesday. You did not put the phone down for twenty-eight minutes. And nothing about your life looked the same after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Along\u003c\/i\u003e is the field guide for the woman who recognized herself, late, in a piece of information she did not see coming. A TikTok video. A child's evaluation. A friend's diagnosis at forty-three. The strange, quiet, lifelong-rearranging moment when something clicks-and the entire shape of your past stops looking like character flaws and starts looking like a pattern you have been living without language for since you were six years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, autism was diagnosed almost exclusively in boys. A generation of girls who masked, scripted, mirrored, and quietly exhausted themselves through every school and workplace and family dinner of their lives were called \u003ci\u003eshy\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003esensitive\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003ean old soul\u003c\/i\u003e, or simply \u003ci\u003etoo much\u003c\/i\u003e. They are now in their thirties, forties, and fifties, finding out - through a Tuesday-afternoon video, a child's evaluation, a friend's text - what was actually going on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf that is you, this book is what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fourteen chapters and fourteen specific practices, Maren Cole walks the late-diagnosed reader through three movements: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecognition\u003c\/b\u003e - the click, the lifetime re-read, the mask you did not know you wore, what autism actually is (and is not), and the practical question of whether to seek a formal diagnosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnmasking\u003c\/b\u003e - sensory truth, autistic burnout, the special interests you've been apologizing for, the social-energy budget, and the meltdowns and shutdowns most of us spent decades hiding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReconfiguring\u003c\/b\u003e - designing work that fits your nervous system, relationships rewritten on your terms, the disclosure question, and a life that does not cost you to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is for you if: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eYou recently came to suspect - or have just confirmed - that you are autistic in your 30s, 40s, or 50s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eYou've been called \u003ci\u003etoo sensitive\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etoo much\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etoo intense\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003etoo quiet\u003c\/i\u003e your whole life and never had language for why\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eYou have read \u003ci\u003eUnmasking Autism\u003c\/i\u003e twice and need the next book - the practical one, the field guide, the one you can write in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eYou are exhausted in a way sleep does not fix, and you are starting to wonder if it's not depression at all\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eYou loved your child enough to get them evaluated and the evaluator gently asked if anyone else in the family might want to be looked at too\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary, intimate, never clinical. The book the late-diagnosed adult woman has been waiting for - written by one of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou were not broken. You were not failing at being a person. You were, all along, exactly what you are.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891169542295,"sku":"9798197748256","price":1273.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197748256.webp?v=1781182623","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/all-along-a-field-guide-for-women-who-discovered-they-were-autistic-in-adulthood-unmasking-regulating-and-building-a-life-that-actually-fits-9798197748256","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}