Could Try Harder: An illustrated journey through an undiagnosed autistic adolescence

Could Try Harder: An illustrated journey through an undiagnosed autistic adolescenceYou just need to stay calm. You should be able to manage. You should have grown out of that by now. You could try harder. Eliza Fricker spent her adolescence being told all of these things, until her autism diagnosis as an adult revealed why she may not have met the expectations of others so easily. Equally, the world didn't seem to live up to the expectations she had of it. Following on from her earlier book Thumbsucker, this graphic memoir narrates

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Lauren Callaghan

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''We weren''t expecting to become obsessed

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"Let's begin to talk about our mental health and page by page

' - Anna Jones

Barriers to the flow of healing such as practitioners' careless use of language and cultural attitudes are identified and contrasted with the need to understand the first-person perspectives of people who are suffering

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Founder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok