Struggling to Survive

As I've mentioned before, many autistic adults struggle with day-to-day existence while most non-autistics, and sometimes even we autistics ourselves, underestimate how precarious our lives have become when we are left without support.

Severe Autism, Denied Support: Struggling to Survive in the Mainstream has been written by Leonard Jayson with Marla Comm about Marla's life as an autistic child and adult who is given no resources or support. Marla has posted in the comments section of this blog over the months detailing some of her difficulties. It is terribly hard, I know from my own experience, to have such a disability and not to be heard or helped by those around us. Usually, only a very few of those closest to us know a little of what we go through.

I have not yet read this book, but hope to do so and review it here on my blog.