{"product_id":"drama-queen-one-autistic-woman-and-a-life-of-unhelpful-labels-9781472274342","title":"Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has taken me several years of exploration  but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. Its just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure  but thats absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism would be to cure me of myself.  During the first thirty years of her life  comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a cry baby  a scaredy cat  a spoiled brat  a weirdo  a show off - but more than anything else  shed been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her behaviour  her meltdowns or her intense emotions. She felt like everyone else knew a social secret that she hadnt been let in on; as if life was a party she hadnt been invited to. Why was everything so damn hard? Little did Sara know that  at the age of thirty  she would be given one more label that would change her lifes trajectory forever. That one day  sitting next to her husband in a clinical psychologists office  she would learn that she had never been a drama queen  or a weirdo  or a cry baby  but she had always been autistic.  Drama Queen is both a tour inside one autistic brain and a declaration that a diagnosis on the spectrum  with the right support  accommodations and understanding  doesnt have to be a barrier to life full of love  laughter and success. It is the story of one woman trying to fit into a world that has often tried to reject her and  most importantly  its about a life of labels  and the joy of ripping them off one by one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647585968181,"sku":"ByrdShop_1472274342","price":45.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781472274342.jpg?v=1781694357","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/drama-queen-one-autistic-woman-and-a-life-of-unhelpful-labels-9781472274342","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}