An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old actor, social media star and advocate Chloé Hayden. This made a lot of her advice and suggestions utterly useless to me, as they were mostly based on having supportive people around you or the money to be able to get to support groups and participate in hobby groups. Definite must read for anyone neurodivergent or anyone with ND loved ones or anyone who wants to be an ally or really just anyone.

Whilst I was not able to relate to every single experience of Chloé, I was able to see myself in her, a little girl afraid to tell people who she was in fear that they would reject me, seeing me only for my diagnosis. As I found this chapter not only incredibly informative (ya girl loves statistics), but so eloquently presented in its portrayal and explanation of the different (and somewhat more intense) aspects of autism. it is such a beautiful listen and read, that covers a variety of neurodivergent identities but obviously centered around chloe’s personal experiences and studies into autism, adhd, and depression from a young age through now, weaving in writings from the time certain events happened in her life as well as hindsight understanding and interpretation. By writing this book, by sharing her story, Chloé has helped me to accept myself as I am, and to realise that my neurodivergence doesn't make me unworthy of a happily ever after. A wonderfully inclusive - and often wonderfully funny - exploration of neurodiversity that never fails to celebrate the positive, Different, Not Less resounds with the lived experience of its gifted author.Reading that small, blink-and-you'll-miss-it excerpt gave me a quite frankly dangerous amount of hope. This is a book to change lives, to inspire and has completely altered the way I see myself and my neurodivergence. This book reminds me that I should be able to do that without fear of being judged or other reprocussions and that I DESERVE to feel comfortable.

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