PDF Strong Female Character | INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Witty, dry, and gimleteyed, this is a necessary corrective in a world where Autistic women are all either written off as quiet and docile, or erased entirely.Devon Price, Ph.D., author of Unmasking AutismScottish comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she'd had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. In this frank and surreal memoir, and nbspshe delivers a sharp and often hilarious portrait of neurodivergence and living unmasked.After reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had itautism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her inability to pick up on social cuesand she told her doctor as much. But it took until she was thirtyfour for her to get diagnosed.Strong Female Character is about the years in between, and the unique combination of sexism and ableism that so often prevents autistic women from getting diagnosed until adulthood. Coming from a workingclass Scottish Catholic family,