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Strong Female Character

Auteur(s): Fern Brady
Narrateur(s): Fern Brady
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 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Witty, dry, and gimlet-eyed, 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 Autism

Scottish 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, she delivers a sharp and often hilarious portrait of neurodivergence and living unmasked.

Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award • A Harper’s Bazaar Best Book of the Year

After reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had it—autism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her inability to pick up on social cues—and she told her doctor as much. But it took until she was thirty-four 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 working-class Scottish Catholic family, Fern wasn’t exactly poised to receive an open-minded acceptance of her neurodivergence. With the piercing clarity and wit that has put her at the top of the British comedy scene, she now reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when neither her parents nor school knew what to do with her.

In a memoir as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Fern leaves no stone unturned while detailing her futile attempts at employment, her increasingly destructive coping mechanisms, and the meltdowns that left her mind (and apartment) in ruins. Her chaotic, nonlinear journey—from stripping to getting arrested to finding a lifeline in comedy to her breakout appearance on the Taskmaster TV show as her full, unmasked self—is both a remarkable coming-of-age tale and a dark but poignant tribute to life at the intersection of womanhood and neurodiversity.

Strong Female Character is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman. Neurodiversité Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale Santé mentale Comédie Drôle Spirituel Célébrité Santé Mémoires
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so comforting to hear many of my experiences reflected strongly from a comedian whose work i’ve enjoyed for years

“i realized there were more than one of us”

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Fern’s brutal honesty and matter of fact delivery is so incredibly relatable. She’s clearly an intelligent woman and I’m so glad she chose to share her experiences in this way.

Outstanding!

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And it never really ends. It's harder when nobody around you understands you, and when you don't understand them. Fern does an amazing job shedding light on feelings that many neurodivergent people feel every day, and hides nothing in the process. The honesty on display here is more than a filter-less walk down memory lane. It's a fearless plowing-through of that which has shaped a great comic into who she is today. Most importantly, however, Strong Female Character is about figuring out how to be who she is, while still being who she wants to be, when so many parts of herself (and her past) are fighting against her.

Understanding Yourself is a Messy Journey

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I have always loved Fern Brady as a comedian, so I was intrigued when I found out she was autistic, As a most likely undiagnosed autistic woman myself, I have always found her very relatable. In this book she shares blunt honest details about the struggles of coping with undiagnosed autism. Many of these experiences were very different from mine, but many were so familiar they brought me to tears. It was downright therapeutic to listen to someone discuss so openly the things that the rest of the world wants you to hide or lie about because it makes them uncomfortable. Thank you Fern for making me feel like I am not alone.

Honesty only an autistic person could muster

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Suspecting I’m Autistic myself this memoir is the most relatable thing I’ve come across in all my research.

Relatable!

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