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I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
- A Memoir
- By: Sarah Kurchak
- Narrated by: Zura Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story”, how the process almost ruined her life, and how she is now trying to recover.
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5 out of 5 stars
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encompassing
- By Nathaniel Rockarts on 03-15-21
- I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
- A Memoir
- By: Sarah Kurchak
- Narrated by: Zura Johnson
Incredible description of autistic life
Reviewed: 10-27-22
I’m autistic and ADHD, and Sarah’s writing was SO helpful for me. While it’s true that if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve only met one autistic person, Sarah’s writing has helped me put words to my own experiences. Her words have validated me and helped me feel less alone in my unique challenges. She has also given me ideas of how I can approach things and interact with people different.
I hope that people who aren’t autistic will listen to this and have an open mind to understand how different the experiences and challenges are of their fellow autistic humans…not so they can treat us differently, but so they can understand more how all of us are different, and we are not lesser for it. We don’t want special treatment…we want inclusion without judgement.
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