Looking After Your Autistic Self

A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being

De: Niamh Garvey

Narrado por: Lara Hutchinson

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'

Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life.

It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting, or the work environment increase.

Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. From understanding what's happening when the stress response kicks in to using the 'detective habit' to spot your individual strengths and triggers. What's more, every element of this book can be personalised to you.

Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.

(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2023 Niamh Garvey

Would like to read it 20 yrs ago…

After approx. 20 yrs of my journey, this one hits all the right notes to me. The nuances, breadth, how unassuming yet so exhausting and painful it can get.

Great, but British accent

Great ideas and ways to cope with autistic challenges, but the narrator's British accent can be hard to understand for non-natives. I managed to listen to it only on slower speed.

Inconsistent Audio quality

The constant edits to the narration, which are obvious due to huge differences in audio quality and poor edits are extremely distracting!

I understand the need to accurately site or keep things updated and correct, but record in the same environment and edit it correctly. This half-approach is extremely frustrating to me.

As someone who says they are sensitive to the voices of presenters & narrators, and who has brothers with more tuned sound perception, I don’t understand what this is so bad with this book.

Sometimes, this book also strays too far into specifically what works for the author, while being too brief on other potential strategies.

So helpful

This book is wonderfully written and is FULL of helpful tools and suggestions. I want it in every format!

Relatable - Insightful - Helpful

This book has given me ways to approach life. It has provided valuable insight into myself. It brings me closer to feeling my lived experiences validated AND valuable.

Diagnosed with autism and adhd at 53 I have searched for books that are relatable. For me this book echoes so much of my lived experience. It also ties together so much of the therapy I have had and I am currently actively trying to work into my life.

I am so happy to have found this priceless guide to my autistic self.