Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels by Sara Gibbs

If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. Sara Gibbs was diagnosed with autism in adulthood. Her version was a very social type of autism. She talked too much. She constantly had crushes on people. She lived in a dream world. Her boundaries were not good. She struggled with all social activity. However, she grew up in an "odd" environment, with a family that was very much into new age anti-vax and Waldorf education. Her father had multiple affairs and was distant from the family. However, he was the one that helped her when times were the hardest, and they grew closer in adulthood and she cared for him near his death. She seemed to have a constant stream of boyfriends, with plenty of drama and obsessiveness. She eventually landed with a caring husband and found a job writing comedy. Her outgoing nature likely helped her to manage - even if it also the source of her problems. The book ends with her diagnoses with autism. This helped her to vanquish some of her "problems" and better understand herself.