Understanding Autistic Adults

Supporting Personal and Professional Pathways and Overcoming Challenges

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Understanding Autistic Adults

Supporting Personal and Professional Pathways and Overcoming Challenges

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Understanding Autistic Adults: Supporting Personal and Professional Pathways and Overcoming Challenges delves deeply into the experiences of autistic adults, providing comprehensive insights into potential professional paths and the psychological hurdles they may face in adulthood. It illuminates the experiences of autistics in professional fields like medicine, music, teaching, and therapy, alongside challenges like gender diversity, eating disorders, dissociative disorders (depersonalization-derealization disorder and DID), sex work, and professional stagnation. Theoretical chapters offer differentiations between autism and other psychiatric conditions; describe autistic thinking in terms of a disrupted integration between primary and secondary processes; provide a matrix for mapping various manifestations of autism; and outline support strategies tailored for autistics, therapists, government systems, and future research. Geared toward the ever-expanding audience of autistic individuals and mental health professionals, this book provides valuable insights into previously underexplored experiences to foster more understanding and validation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Professional Pathways for Autistic Adults
Chapter 1: Autistic Doctors
Chapter 2: Autistic Therapists
Chapter 3: Autistic Musicians
Chapter 4: Autistic Teachers
Chapter 5: Other Professional Arenas Where Autistics May Be Found
Part II: Challenges in the Lives of Autistic Adults
Chapter 6: Autism and Eating Disorders
Chapter 7: Autism and Gender Diversity
Chapter 8: Klinefelter Syndrome and Autism
Chapter 9: Autistics in the Sex Industry
Chapter 10: Autism and Dissociative Disorders—DID, Derealization, Depersonalization
Chapter 11: Autistics Who Seem to Be “Stuck”
Part III: Broader Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 12: Common Misdiagnoses and Key Differences Compared to Autism
Chapter 13: The Disrupted Integration between Primary and Secondary Processes in Autistic Thinking
Chapter 14: A Proposed Matrix for the Categorization of Autistic People
Endnote: Ways to Assist Autistic Adults
References
Index
About the Author

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Published Oct 27 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 250
ISBN 9781538197172
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 0 x 0 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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